Culture

When the First Fleet of a British convicts and sailors landed in Sydney Cove in 1788 they had in fact discovered what many would later agree was the world’s most spectacular harbour.

Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia’s “greatest short story writer”.

Aboriginal children were sent on journeys within the territory of their clan to familiarise themselves from an early age with the land and how to survive in it.

He was known as Banjo Paterson but his real name was Andrew Barton Paterson and is best known for writing Australia’s most popular song, Waltzing Matilda