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Swagman - Wikipedia. This article is about the Australian and New Zealand term. For the Melbourne restaurant, see Swagman Restaurant. Photograph of a swagman, c. A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a Swag (bedroll). The term originated in Australia in the 1.

New Zealand. Swagmen were particularly common in Australia during times of economic uncertainty, such as the 1. Great Depression of the 1. Showtime Full Batman Vs. Robin Online Free. Many unemployed men travelled the rural areas of Australia on foot, their few meagre possessions rolled up and carried in their swag.

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Michelle Williams is "keeping things real" for Matilda. A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a Swag (bedroll).

Typically, they would seek work in farms and towns they travelled through, and in many cases the farmers, if no permanent work was available, would provide food and shelter in return for some menial task. The figure of the "jolly swagman", represented most famously in Banjo Paterson's bush poem "Waltzing Matilda", became a folk hero in 1.

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Australia, and is still seen today as a symbol of anti- authoritarian values that Australians considered to be part of the national character. Etymology[edit]In the early 1. British thieves to describe any amount of stolen goods.

One definition given in Francis Grose's 1. Watch Alice In Murderland Youtube. Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is "any booty you have lately obtained.. To carry the swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety."[1]James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his memoirs written in 1.

By the 1. 83. 0s, the term in Australia had transferred from meaning goods acquired by a thief to the possessions and daily necessaries carried by a bushman. The compound swagman and colloquial variation swaggie first appeared in the 1. Australian gold rushes, alongside less common terms such as bundleman.[3] New Zealanders adopted the term in the 1. Swagger also originated in Australia, but became obsolete there by the 1. History[edit]Before motor transport became common, the Australian wool industry was heavily dependent on itinerant shearers who carried their swags from farm to farm (called properties or "stations" in Australia), but would not in general have taken kindly to being called "swagmen".

Outside of the shearing season their existence was frugal, and this possibly explains the tradition (of past years) of sheep stations in particular providing enough food to last until the next station even when no work was available. Some were especially noted for their hospitality, such as Canowie Station in South Australia which around 1. A romanticised figure, the swagman is famously referred to in the song "Waltzing Matilda", by Banjo Paterson, which tells of a swagman who turns to stealing a sheep from the local squatter. The economic depressions of the 1.

During these periods it was seen as 'mobilising the workforce'. At one point it was rumoured that a "Matilda Waltzers' Union" had been formed to give representation to swagmen at the Federation of Australia in 1. During the early years of the 1.

During World War One many were called up for duty and fought at Gallipoli as ANZACs. The song "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" tells the story of a swagman who fought at Gallipoli. The numbers of swagmen have declined over the 2. Swagmen remain a romantic icon of Australian history and folklore. Swags are still heavily used, particularly in Australia, by overlanders and campers.

There are still a large number of manufacturers actively making both standard and custom- design swags. Lifestyle[edit]Swagmen were often victims of circumstance who had found themselves homeless. Others were rovers by choice, or else they were on the run from police (bushrangers). Many were European or Asian migrants seeking fortune on the goldfields. One such swagman was Welshman Joseph Jenkins, who travelled throughout Victoria between 1. Swagmen ranged in age from teenagers to the elderly. Socialist leader John A.

Lee's time as a swagman while a teenager informed his political writing,[9] and also featured directly in some of his other books. Novelist Donald Stuart also began his life as a swagman at age 1. Several of his novels follow the lives of swagmen and aborigines in the Kimbereley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. Many swagmen interacted with aborigines along their travels; bushwear designer R. M. Williams spent his latter teen years as a swagman travelling across the Nullarbor Plain, picking up bushcraft and survival skills from local aboriginal tribes such as cutting mulga, tracking kangaroos and finding water. Watch Penelope Online Mic.

At times they would have been seen in and around urban areas looking for work or a handout. Most eyewitness descriptions of swagmen were written during the period when the country was 'riding on the sheep's back'. At this time, rovers were offered rations at police stations as an early form of the dole payment. They roamed the countryside finding work as sheep shearers or as farm hands.

Not all were hard workers. Some swagmen known as sundowners would arrive at homesteads or stations at sundown when it was too late to work, taking in a meal and disappearing before work started the next morning. The New Zealand equivalent of a sundowner was known as a tussocker.[5]Most existed with few possessions as they were limited by what they could carry.

Generally they had a swag (canvas bedroll), a tucker bag (bag for carrying food) and some cooking implements which may have included a billy can (tea pot or stewing pot). They carried flour for making damper and sometimes some meat for a stew. In Henry Lawson's short story The Romance of the Swag, he describes in detail how to make a dinky- die Aussie swag. Lawson states,"Travelling with the swag in Australia is variously and picteresguely described as "humping bluey", "walking Matilda", "humping Matilda", "humping your drum", "being on the wallaby", "jabbing trotters", and "tea and sugar burglaring".[1. Swagmen travelled with fellow 'swaggies' for periods, walking where they had to go, hitch hiking or stowing aboard cargo trains to get around.

They slept on the ground next to a campfire, in hollowed out trees or under bridges. Popular culture[edit]In the 1. Australian bush poetry grew in popularity alongside an emerging sense of Australian nationalism. The swagman was venerated in poetry and literature as symbolic of Australian nationalistic and egalitarian ideals.

Popular poems about swagmen include Henry Lawson's Out Back (1. Shaw Neilson's The Sundowner (1.