Australian Novelist Niland, who has been a swagman himself, tells the reader a lot about his homeland in a story as fresh as a billy of tea brewing over a thistle campfire.
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong .
The swagman, that mythical figure who roamed the rural vastness at the turn of the century carrying only a rolled-up blanket, a tin mug and a packet of tea, is now but a name for a .