G'day Bill D,

Actually, the 'Wackers do some quite good (especially upbeat) versions of classics. It's all part of the tapestry. I just get frustrated with their tendency to not let facts stand in the way of background notes. Songs in the Australian tradition were very much about information and it does them no service to muddy the waters.

Maybe I should really vent my spleen on their editors / copywriters / publicists ... but they did go through a deliberately contentious phase where they got mileage out of every thing they said that left scholars and folklorists spluttering!

Regards,

Bob Bolton