I'm at work, and don't have the books to hand, but there are strong parallels between the 'folk' verses Australia's on the Wallaby and Henry Lawson's poem, from the later stages of the Shearer's Strike, Freedom's on the Wallaby. Henry's verses were published in a Union newspaper ... and vitriolically denounced in the Queensland Parliament (representing the Government / large pastoralist viewpoint).
Of course, these particular verses use a number of local expression for carrying a swag (the common practice of itinerant workers to carry their belonging rolled in a blanket, on their back, as they tramped between possible jobs) but don't use Paterson's phrase "waltzing Matilda", which seems to have been a local expression in the south-east of Queensland - possibly coming directly from the German expressions of those Germanic political / economic refugees from Bismarck's recent "Unification" of the independent states and principalities of Germany.