G'day Foolestroupe.
I'm right with you, Robyn. Whenever I want to convey a sense of the Oz character to someone from outside Australia, I try sending them a copy of short stories that includes Lawson's "The Loaded Dog". But I've not heard anyone do it as a recitation. It's the sort of item Auty might have tackled; he hadn't done it in Melbourne and I've got no idea of his repertoire in Brisbane, where you probably had more exposure to him.

Greetings beachcomber,
You're most welcome and I hope Liam can use them. The folk scene in Oz is blessed with characters; I'm just part of the scenery, so to speak. But I've been around a while and have been exposed to a wide variety of contexts.

As you might have guessed, The Ballad of Idwal Slabs (which I've been careful not to insert into the current "Definition of a ballad" discussion) is at home among rock climbers and I was a bit of a tiger in the Melbourne uni mountaineering club; I even helped compile its songbook. That was one of my earliest recitations but the Melbourne scene had a few raconteurs and many of the items I've posted were picked up from them. I've still got a few more to trot out but they'll take a little time to digitise.

Cheers, Rowan