G'day, Very interesting ... almost all reputable source credit to A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson. The date of Banjo's publishing falls close to execution of 'Breaker' Morant ... and ... inevitably ... gets tangled in the morass of behind the scenes politics and judicial murder in the suppression of the Dutch element of South Australia ... versus "Military Law"! ... Just try mentioning - in a "Scouting" family - like the one I grew up with - that Baden Powell back then "invented" the concept of the Prison Camp ... ! Regard(les)s, BobB
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