Dan Morgan (bushranger) Under Arms", first published in serial form in 1882. Two biographies have been written about Morgan: Margaret Carnegie's "Morgan: The Bold Bushranger" (1974), and Edgar F. Penzig's "Morgan the Murderer" (1989). Banjo Paterson wrote the words of "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most famous folk song, to a tune played on the zither by the grown Christina Macpherson (who was the infant in the 1865 incident above). Morgan is referenced in the song "Billabong Valley" by Australian psychedelic rock group King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, released on their 2017 album, "Flying Microtonal Banana". Dan Morgan (bushranger) Dan Morgan (30 April 1830
Australian literature author Patrick White, as well as authors Christina Stead, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Bradley Trevor Greive, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute and Morris West. Notable contemporary expatriate authors include the feminist Germaine Greer, art historian Robert Hughes and humorists Barry Humphries and Clive James. Among the important authors of classic Australian works are the poets Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C. J. Dennis and Dorothea Mackellar. Dennis wrote in the Australian vernacular, while Mackellar wrote the iconic patriotic poem" My Country". Lawson and Paterson clashed in the famous "Bulletin Debate" over the nature of life in Australia with Lawson considered