ISSUE #7
    Volume 3/2

    the e-zine on Australian folklore

    ISSN 1446-2133

    Simply Australia


    Winter Issue

    OPEN YOUR EYES to AUSTRALIA

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    David MulhallenOlya WillisValda LowJim LowRob WillisJohn Low
    Australia has a rich heritage and this is reflected in its folklore, its oral and social history as well as its music and song.
    ISSUE #7



    EDITORIAL . . .


    BACK TO CHILDHOOD . . .
    Songs photos and memories of a childhood growing up in North Sydney before an expressway divided a community. ..... more


    GlenrowanNED KELLY STRIKES AGAIN . . .
    on DVD from Screensound Australia - the National Screen and Sound Archive .... more


    A SENSE OF PLACE:
    More Than a Name . . .
    History, as we commonly conceive of it, is not what happened, but what gets recorded and told. ......... more


    IRISH AUSTRALIAN FLAG . . .
    This flag was raised for the first time at the Vinegar Hill Woolshed on 10th March, 1988.
    .... more

    SIMPLY REVIEWS . . .
    David Mulhallen talks of Phyl Lobl and reviews her latest CD .... read the complete review


    AUDIO FILES . . .
  • More Than a Name - Jim Low
  • Sixty Long Years - Jim Low
  • Faded Photos - Jim Low


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    WHO IS SALLY SLOANE?
    Sally Sloane has an important place in the history of traditional music in Australia.
    .... read more


    THE 'FOLK' PROCESS: Two Songs of Harry Peckman, the Blue Mountains Poet by John Low . . . . . more


    SONGS AND STORIES OF AUSTRALIA . . .
    David Mulhallen looks at ghosts and other superstitions in the first of two articles on this fascinating subject
    ..... more


    THE COLLECTION BOX . . .
    collection boxIf you have ever wondered where the expression “in the clink” came from, wonder no more. ... more



    AUSSIE STORYTELLER BRIDGES CULTURES
    Paul Taylor's 20-year walkabout has taken him across oceans and continents, building bridges of cultural understanding each step of the way. . . . ..... more


    SIMPLY AUSTRALIAN POETRY . . .

  • The Great South Land - Hod Cay
  • Outback Dreaming - Max Merckenschlager
  • Conversation - John Low
  • The Lights of Cobb and Co - Henry Lawson
  • Battling On - John A. Denney


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