I briefly considered sending this as a PM, but I think it does belong on this thread because it is germane to Jim's theme of the people who made the songs having personal knowledge of their subjects.

Steve: "Without going into offensive detail it's pretty obvious the broadside writer had never been to Australia and his informants were also somewhat misled."

What is obviously wrong, apart from the name "Oldberry"?

Even now, with a metalled road running beside the Hawkesbury River and houses, a random spot on that road as shown in Google Streetview could still pass for "the forests so wild and the trees ever green". It's not the Outback.