Poet Banjo Patterson jazzed up this unlikely story with colorful slang such as jolly swagman, billabong, coolabah, jumbuck and tuckerbag.
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Swagmen were particularly common in Australia during times of economic uncertainty, such as the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Most eyewitness descriptions of swagmen were written during the period when the country was'riding on the sheep's back '.
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Set during the depression, it is about a boy who is taught by a swagman to make and play a bamboo flute.
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A jolly swagman ( a tramp ) steals a jumbuck ( a small sheep ) and hides it his tucker ( food ) bag.
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Police homicide investigators said Harry Chapman, 56, died minutes after collapsing inside his room at the Swagman Hotel at the Ermita district.
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Khan has developed SWAGMAN series of mathematical models of irrigation, drought management, groundwater flow and contaminant transport and surface-groundwater interactions.
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The "'Swagman "'is a fictional character, a supervillain, appearing within comic books published by DC Comics.
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Other characters portrayed include the " Swagmen " ( Moondyne's gang ), temperance ladies, the undertaker, and the barber.
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Early Australian ballads sing of the harsh ways of life of the epoch and of such people and events as bushrangers, swagmen, shearers.
