This selection of Australian colonial verse and song shows the hardship, loneliness and failures along with the love, joy and wonderful successes that helped forge the basis of (European) Australian attitudes and culture.

The canvasses of the writers of this selection have been coloured by bushrangers and squatters, by 'wallabies' and miners, by jailers and convicts, by lovers and fighters all trying to make some sense of this strange and inhospitable new land.

• Ballad of Bold Jack Donahoe
• Ballad of Queensland
• Bellbirds
• Botany Bay
• Clancy Of The Overflow
• Click Go The Shears, Boys
• Convicts Lament
• Faces In The Street
• My Country
• Nine Miles From Gundagai
• Pat Malone
• Reedy River
• Shearer's Song

• Squatting in Queensland
• Stringy Bark and Green Hide
• The Bush of Australia
• The Last Of His Tribe
• The Man From Ironbark
• The Never-Never Land
• The Old Bullock Dray
• Ticket-of-Leave Holder
• Unlock The Land
• Waratah and Wattle
• When Your Pants Begin To Go
• With My Swag All On My Shoulder
• Ye Weary Wayfarer