G'day alinact/Allan,

The author of Watchers of the Water is Paul Hemphill. It must come from the early part of the '80s, as it was winner of the "New Song and Tune" section of one of the Bush Music Club's annual Song, Poem and Dance Competitions, which started around 1979.

I may well have been the first publisher of this song, in Mulga Wire the Bush Music Club's magazine, where I set it against a song from the Australian side.

I'm not sure where Paul is now living - fairly sure it isn't Sydney.

Regards,

Bob Bolton