Did Banjo Patterson whitewash the Man from Snowy River?

Australia has the largest wild horse population in the world with numbers estimated in the range of half a million. In the Outback they’re regularly culled by helicopter and nobody bats an eyelid - the battle between those who are opposed to the horses being culled, and those who say they’re ruining the pristine alpine environment they call home.

 

Walkley-award winning journalist Anthony Sharwood has written a new book, the Brumby Wars.   He paints the picture of a culture war between those who want the brumbies culled and those who want them protected

 

And… Anthony unearths new evidence that reignites old claims The Man From Snowy River – is part of whitewashed history. As in the... stockman from Banjo Paterson’s poem – was actually, originally, an Indigenous man.

 

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