Article 5P07A Real-life Man From Snowy River was Aboriginal, new book argues

Real-life Man From Snowy River was Aboriginal, new book argues

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Tory Shepherd
from World news | The Guardian on (#5P07A)

Anthony Sharwood, author of The Brumby Wars, says all the stockmen were Indigenous where the legendary ride is thought to have happened

There is overwhelming evidence" that the legendary stockman featured in The Man From Snowy River was Aboriginal, a new book argues.

Did AB Banjo" Paterson paint his stockman white to appease the literary tastes of the times"?, the journalist Anthony Sharwood asks in The Brumby Wars.

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