Banjo's , 'land of rock and scrub'

[Duncan Williams]

Banjo's , 'land of rock and scrub'.



More than 55000 will be added to the national tally of the land declaration gas field free by local people of Wandabah, near Gunnedah in NSW make their community declaration on sunday August 31.
The occasion will be marked with a ceremony at a hut in the Goran state forest that according to local folklore was used by bush balladeer Banjo Paterson more than a century ago.
Lock the gate north-west NSW said it was fitting that the ceremony take place at the hut once used by one of the nations best loved poets and a champion of the bush.
Banjo's Paterson's famous "Geebung Polo Club" is understand to been inspired by the Quirindi polo club. (near Tamworth NSW) which was keenly supported by locals.
Banjo Paterson would turn in his grave if he could see the damage to land, water country and community that is across rural Australia.
The community is fighting back against the invasion with a public declaration that the gas industry is not welcome here.
local farmers and small towns fear for the future of agriculture in the region if the area became a gasfield.

[Duncan Williams]

Geebung Polo Club (Banjo Paterson)


It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub,
That they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club,
They were long and wiry natives from the rugged mountain side,
And the horse was never saddled, that the Geebungs couldnt ride,
But their style of playing polo was irregular and rash -
They had mighty little science , but a mighty lot of dash.
And they played on mountain ponies that were muscular and strong,
though their coats were quite unpolished, and their manes and tales were long.
And they used to train those ponies wheeling cattle in the scrub,
They were demons, were the members of the Geebung Polo Club.