Fair Go, Ginger.

Morant's poetry was good but to put him in the league with Lawson and Patterson is stretching it a bit - sorta like putting James Herbert in the same league as Shakespeare or Chaucer.

Given that Harry Morant was (from memory) English-born; I'd put his interpretation of Australian life as expressed in poetry and prose in a league with that of Eric Bogle - the Scots-born lyricist who seems to have a far better understanding of the Aussie psyche than most Aussies (and I'd put him on a par just below that of John Williamson who is, in turn the step below Lawson and Patterson.

Mind you - Morant and Bogle would STILL be above Ted Egan and MILES above the likes of James Blundell & Lee Kernaghan.

If you recall the end of the movie that part where the men go to their seats in front of the firing squad and are walking towards them, they reach out and hold hands - that incredibly poignant depiction was a piece of inspired improv on Woodwards part - when they did that there wasn't a dry eye in the house: male OR female.

It was also the Breaker Morant incident that led to the decision to take control of Australian soldiers in France and Turkey - both tactical and disciplinary - away from the British High Command and place them under Australian commanders. This way no Australian soldiers would ever be executed 'as an example' as so many British soldiers were. The Captains Letter is a great example of the latter.

Muttley