Banjo Paterson: The Man who wrote Waltzing Matilda

J. B. `Banjo' Paterson was not simply the author of the words of `Waltzing Matilda', Australia's unofficial national anthem, and many other classic ballads such as `The man from Snowy River' and `Clancy of the Overflow'. Though it is now almost forgotten, he was a first-rate war correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, a friend of `Breaker' Morant, an expert horseman, and later an editor of The Sydney Evening News and The Sportsman and the earliest collection of traditional Aussie bush songs