There's a song called THE CANNING STOCK ROUTE, composed by Bob Emery, performed by the Fiddler's Green Bush Band, on a various-artists album called "Pubsongs from Down Under, Vol. 2," Blue Sun, 1998. I heard these lyrics in a sound sample:
…to see the cattle moving through the scrub The parrots and the kangaroo rats soon had to share the land With a thousand head of cattle as they passed Dust and sand and stony desert Canning and his team push on Bringing up artesian water From way down….