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  • n  an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work

  • 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 .

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