Stockade Promo Brochure by Melissa Hinves

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THE STOCKADE AUSSIE LEGENDS

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SOUVENIR EDITION MAGAZINE

www.StockadeStore.com.au +61 8 9325 1553

SOUVENIR EDITION MAGAZINE

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The Stockade, Corner Wellington St & Barrack St, Perth WA 6000 www.stockadestore.com.aU Phone: (08) 9325 1553 / Fax: (08) 9325 5560

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Corner of Barrack and Wellington Streets

G’day Mate, As Australia’s premier country outfitter, The Stockade Store has been bringing style and quality to outback and rural men and women, and now the world, for over 30 years. In this special ‘Aussie Legends’ Souvenir Edition we are proud to honour some of our favourite Australian iconic brands that have helped to shape our nation and protect our hardworking Aussies and their families since the early 1900s. From handcrafted boots, moleskin shirts and jeans to oilskin coats and hats, every piece has been crafted to withstand the dirt, the heat, the droughts – the storms, the rains, the floods… and the harsh and beautiful places of Outback Australia. Their style is quintessential, their quality impeccable. In these pages we bring you their stories from often humble beginnings to their rise as ‘Aussie Legends’. These companies, their founders and those that work within them, represent the true spirit, grit, mateship and determination that embodies the Australian way of life. In the words of the late R.M.Williams “Looking good doesn’t make you work any less hard.”

Australian Facts

p15

R.M.Williams

p17

Aussie Legends

p24

Australia’s Films, Books and Music

p26

Australian Culture

p30

Thomas Cook

p36

The Man from Snowy River

p38

Australia’s History

p42

Akubra

p44

Driza-Bone

p50

Aussie Slang

p58

Barmah Hats

p57

Store Details and Map

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Regards,

James Gardner, Owner, The Stockade Store

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Corner of Barrack and Wellington Streets A little bit of history of the early days… We did a fair amount of digging and searching and the story you are just about to read. It draws a brief history of the most unique shopping spot in Perth. The Stockade Store building on the corner of Barrack and Wellington Streets has a great history that is worth telling to anyone who loves old city tales… It is not really known when exactly it appeared on the streets of Perth. Some suggest it was the late 1890s, others say early 1900s. We do know though it was the Breckler family – owners of several businesses in Perth at the time, who built it. In the early years of the 20th century the building had occupants such as a tobacconist, a newsagency, a café and Freeman and Freeman Chemists previously known as Danker’s Swan Drug Company.

Have you ever heard of Egyptian Corn Cure? Breckler Family, Perth Western Australia, around 1910

In 1912, Alex Trouchet bought Freeman and Freeman’s Pharmacy. Alex was a remarkable man, a visionary who brought to Perth a flair for marketing and promotion that saw him the owner of the State’s largest pharmaceutical business in the first 30 years of 1900s. The building then became well known as ‘Trouchet’s corner’. By the mid 1920s Alex Trouchet was one of Western Australia’s leading businessmen, and his good name and reputation were of the utmost importance to him. At that time he was producing and selling his Big T range of products all over the state. These included cough and cold syrups, hair restorer, tonics, balsams and the first commercial ‘anti smoking’ cure in Australia. Jordan’s Cough Elixir was another well known Trouchet’s specialty. However, nothing can overshadow the fame Alex gained from introducing his famous Egyptian Corn Cure into the Australian market for the treatment of verrucas and warts. A large replica foot, which was the centre piece for a display of Trouchet’s Egyptian Corn Cure, was a familiar sight in most of the larger pharmacies of the time. Original earthenware pots and their lids bearing this brand are much sought after by collectors today.

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Main picture and inset: The Corner of Barrack and Wellington Streets, Perth in the early 1900s.

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Many people related stories of their childhood enjoying ice creams and sodas at Trouchet’s corner, and hearing the tales that Alex was only too happy to tell. His natural charm and courteous manner made him one of the most popular pharmacists in Perth and he always had a kindly word or a small gift of a sample perfume or soap for the children of the mothers who came from afar by tram and train to have Mr. Trouchet dispense their prescriptions. Alex Trouchet gave a personal guarantee with a ‘money back offer’.

Then came the disaster of the 1929 depression and Alex was hit so hard that he lost his farm and almost everything else. He was now 62 years old and in 1932 he and his wife returned to Kalgoorlie to start afresh in another Pharmacy. But the old fire had gone, and his health was also failing. Alex returned to Perth where he died on 22 November 1934. The next owner of Alex Trouchet & Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists, Mrs. Elizabeth Heaney (one of the first female pharmacists in WA!), who began her apprenticeship at Trouchet’s Pharmacy in June 1938, had moved the business from its well know site at the corner of Barrack and Wellington Streets in Perth, to the adjacent suburb of East Perth, due to rising costs and diminishing margins. She continued in the tradition that characterised these old Pharmacies with a real “personality”, until the mid 1980s when the property was sold to property developers, and as so often happens when the old order changes, commercial reality overrides sentiment and even though the shadow of the once bustling empire of Alex Trouchet rested briefly in East Perth, the substance has finally gone.

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Clockwise from top left: the corner in the 1920s; 1930s; 1930s Opposite: the store today

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Not so distant past The Stockade and Top Hatters begin… In 1983, Mr. Lewis Clark came along and opened up two new and exciting businesses called Western Wear and LJ Ranch. They become very popular amongst West Australians as well as the visitors to the country resulting in him eventually combining the two stores into one. This is the beginning of The Stockade Store on the corner of Barrack and Wellington Street. Seven years later Mr. Clark discovered a niche in the Western Australian market. He realized the town was missing a comprehensive hat shop, and so a vibrant little business started to grow which eventually became big enough to become a stand alone business known as Top Hatters situated on Barrack Street. The current owner, James Gardner bought the two businesses from Mr. Clark in October 2006 and took possession in December 1 2006. The stores now occupy 240 meters of floor space. The building is currently on the Perth’s heritage buildings list and awaiting being recognized as one of our historic landmarks.

The Spirit of The Stockade The Stockade today is filled the history and culture of Australia. Its heritage and sense of belonging in the lives of so many Australians from varied walks of life, makes it a truly unique place to shop in. It is not only the locals who appreciate our strong focus on traditional service though… ever returning tourists have enjoyed nearly 30 years of our quality service and top Australian designed products. We believe that the spirit of this very old building we have the pleasure to work in has always been with us, reminding us of the great achievements of our ancestors. Come to The Stockade and you will be able to see for yourself how we embraced Alex Trouchet’s visionary new approach combined with excellent customer service or Elizabeth Heaney’s focus on tradition and ‘being real’. And do not forget about the ‘money back offer’ cultivated here at The Stockade for nearly 100 years!

Main picture: Top Hatters today. Above from left to right: James Gardner, The Stockade Store, Western Style footwear.

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So, why wouldn’t you become our next Aussie Legend and get fitted with top quality Australian designed clothing and foot wear today? Pick and choose from the widest range of Aussie brands suck as R.M.Williams, Thomas Cook, Driza Bone, Wrangler Australia, Blundstones, Rossi and many, many more. Our friendly personnel will make sure you feel and look GREAT! This is what we have been doing for the last 30 years and we hope our business continues to thrive for the next generations to come! And yes, you can shop online as well. Visit our website at www.StockadeStore.com.au for the latest products and special offers. And remember – if it doesn’t make you fall in love with it, just send it back to us and receive your money back!

Top Hatters Top Hatters has the highest reputation for having Perth’s most comprehensive array of hats and masks. It has been growing quietly but steadily for the last 22 years and as time goes on we will continue providing our loyal customers the best personal experience ever. With iconic brands such as Akubra, Panama and Barmah Hats to name a few, there is no head we can’t fit in with the perfect hat. Did you know that fitting a hat can be compared to arranging a vase of flowers? It is no coincidence that our best hat fitter is an ex-florist!

WALK IN – TRY IT ON – WEAR IT LOVE IT!

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The Stockade Store, ‘The Country Outfitters to the World’, stocks Australia’s leading brands. To view our full range go online to www.StockadeStore.com.au

Acknowledgements We would like to recognize that some of the information used in the early history of the building was obtained from: www.members.fortunecity.com Sunday Times Perth

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WITH THE STOCKADE’S ‘NO RISK, FIT RIGHT, LOOK RIGHT 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE’ YOU DON’T NEED TO WORRY, JUST SEND IT BACK AND WE’LL SWAP IT OR GIVE YOU A FULL REFUND INCLUDING POSTAGE THE SAME DAY. StockadeBook_sect2.indd 2

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OUR LANDSCAPE A wide, brown land Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It’s about the same size as the 48 mainland states of the USA and 50 per cent larger than Europe, but has the lowest population density in the world - only two people per square kilometre. Beach paradise Australia’s coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilometres and is linked by over 10,000 beaches, more than any other country in the world. More than 85 per cent of Australians live within 50 kilometres of the coast, making it an integral part of our laid-back lifestyle.

Our island home Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands. The mainland is the largest island and the world’s smallest, flattest continent. Our exports Opals in our eyes Australia produces 95 per cent of the world’s precious opals and 99 per cent of its black opals. The world’s opal capital is the quirky underground town of Coober Pedy in South Australia. The world’s largest opal, weighing 5.27 kilograms, was found here in 1990.

Gold galore Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is Australia’s largest producer of gold. It also embraces the world’s largest political electorate, covering a mammoth 2.2 million square kilometres. Merinos and cattle calls Australia’s 85.7 million sheep (mostly merinos) produce most of the world’s wool. With 25.4 million head of cattle, Australia is also the world’s largest exporter of beef.

OUR RECORD-BREAKERS Natural legends Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef is home to the world’s largest oyster, weighing up to 3 kilograms, while the world’s longest earthworm, stretching up to 4 metres, is found in Gippsland in Victoria. The heaviest crab, weighing up to 14 kilograms, is found in Bass Strait near Tasmania. Australia’s tallest

mountain is Mt Kosciuszko, which is 2,228 metres above sea level. Longest road, rail and fence The world’s longest piece of straight railway track stretches 478 kilometres across South Australia’s vast, treeless Nullarbor Plain. Australia’s longest stretch of straight road - 148 kilometres – is on the Eyre Highway in Western

Australia. It’s just a tiny portion of the 2,700 kilometre sealed road that takes travellers from Perth to Adelaide. The world’s longest continuous fence – the dingo fence – was built to keep sheep safe from Australia’s native dog and runs for 5,531 kilometres through central Queensland and South Australia.

Unique wildlife Australia developed a unique fauna when it broke away from the super-continent Gondwana more than 50 million years ago. Today Australia is home to a wealth of wildlife not found anywhere else in the world. We have around 800 species of birds, half of which

are unique to this country. Our marine environments contain more than 4,000 fish varieties and tens of thousands of species of invertebrates, plants and microorganisms. About 80 per cent of Australia’s southern marine species are found nowhere else in the world.

OUR FLORA AND FAUNA A hopping icon The iconic kangaroo is unique to Australia and one of our most easily recognised mammals. There are an estimated 40 million kangaroos in Australia, more than when Australia was first settled.

OUR PEOPLE AND CULTURE An ethnic melting pot Since 1945 more than six million people from across the world have come to Australia to live. Today, more than 20 per cent of Australians are foreign born and more than 40 per cent are of mixed cultural origin. In our homes we speak 226 languages - after English, the most popular are Italian, Greek, Cantonese and Arabic.

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Aboriginal advances Believed to be the world’s oldest civilization, Aboriginal people have lived and thrived on this continent for more than 50,000 years. Aboriginal societies made many unique advances long before the Europeans arrived. They invented the aerodynamic boomerang and a type of spear thrower called the woomera. They were also the first

society to ground edges on stone cutting tools and the first to use stone tools to grind seeds, everyday tools developed only much later by other societies.

SOURCE www.australia.com

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R.M.Williams The Bush Outfitter Our Founder: Reginald Murray (RM) Williams AO, CMG

Reginald Murray (RM) Williams was born in 1908 on a farm in mid-north South Australia. From the age of 16, RM worked through more careers than there are stitches on his boots – camel boy, drover, stockman, cattleman, well digger, bookmaker, miner, businessman, historian, author and leatherworker just to name a few. RM first went bush in his teens – lime burning and building in stone in Victoria and on the Western Australian goldfields. In the late 1920s, he signed on as a camel boy with the missionary explorer, William Wade, in his treks across Australia’s central western deserts. He learned valuable bush lore and survival skills from the aboriginal people of the area, and honed his stock handling and bushcraft skills from the stockmen of the desert fringe cattle stations. By 1932, the onset of the Great Depression found RM camped out in the Gammon Ranges of South Australia with his young family, barely making a living digging wells. During this time he met an itinerant saddler named Dollar Mick. A self-taught genius in leatherworking, Dollar Mick passed on his skills to the 24-year-old RM who made and sold his first pair of riding boots for 20 shillings to a man from Hilltaba Station whose name he couldn’t remember. Having worked on some of the great pastoral runs of the interior, no one knew better than RM what men who were born in the saddle wanted when it came to footwear. With boot sales to the first unknown buyer and cattle king, Sir Sidney Kidman, under his belt, RM set up the beginnings of his first factory in 1932 in an iron woolshed behind his father’s house at 5 Percy Street, Prospect (now the R.M.Williams Outback Heritage Museum). With no capital and little help, he built up a team of dedicated craftsmen and took out advertisements in the rural press that asked customers for cash with their orders. Over the following decades, RM developed his business, diversifying into bush saddlery, equipment and the company’s trademark moleskins, jeans and bush shirts. Other landmarks of RM’s life include being a founding member of Australian Roughriders Association, and helping to form the Equestrian Federation of Australia in 1951 and the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame in Longreach in 1988. He was also the editor of Hoofs and Horns magazine in the early 1950s. Main picture, left and right: R.M.WIlliams.

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RM was also the founder of Australia’s Bicentennial National Trail – a 5,330km route through Australian bush, wilderness and mountain areas. It is suitable for horse riders, walkers and mountain bike riders. RM and his wife Erica together with Tom Quilty were the inspiration for the Tom Quilty Endurance Ride in 1966, which is held annually and is now an international event. Nominated as a National Living Treasure by Prime Minister John Howard MP, Reginald Murray Williams was also chosen as Patron of 2002 Year of the Outback. Reginald Murray Williams, AO, CMG passed away on 4 November 2003 aged 95; a Queensland State funeral followed as the nation mourned the death of an Australian legend.

R.M.Williams Company Today R.M.Williams is a wholly Australian-owned company with a proud history of bush outfitting. For almost 80 years, the R.M.Williams company has manufactured quality footwear, clothing and accessories that reflect Australia’s true outback spirit and quintessential Australian style. R.M.Williams’ quality products have remained relevant to its core outback and rural customers, but have more recently appealed to a broader customer who value quality, authenticity, functionality and style – regardless of where they live and work. The company releases two seasonal ranges per year to suit our bush and city customers. These ranges include STOCKYARD – a range developed for those living and working on the land, Seasonal men’s and women’s wear, Big Men’s – designed for the larger gentleman, as well as our youth focused range, LONGHORN and children’s range, Colts & Fillies. In addition to the two seasonal ranges, an authentic range of core products are available all year round. R.M.Williams currently owns 50 retail stores in Australia and continues to grow this retail network whilst also distributing its quality products through an extensive web of over 900 stockists in Australia and overseas. R.M.Williams has two international stores – London (102 New Bond Street) and New York City (46 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Ave). Aside from creating quality goods, R.M.Williams is dedicated to telling the stories of outback Australia through its bimonthly publication, OUTBACK Magazine along with specialist magazines such as Australia in Style, The Utes Annual, OUTBACK Stations and OUTBACK Tracks. R.M.Williams also actively promotes Australia’s tourism industry and is involved in a number of tourism related initiatives.

Australian Manufacturing at its best: The R.M.Williams factory in Adelaide, South Australia R.M.Williams is unique in the Australian manufacturing sector because the company continues to design and manufacture high quality footwear, clothing and accessories at its factory in Salisbury, South Australia. While many other Australian manufacturers have been unable to keep their operations in Australia, R.M.Williams has remained firmly committed to its factory operation which employs over 300 people. This group of skilled employees handcrafts leather boots (elastic-sided and top boots) and unique accessories such as leather plaited belts, stockwhips and leather accessories. They also sew garments as diverse as denim jeans, moleskin shirts, jeans and trousers, cotton shirts, oilskin coats and leather coats.

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R.M.Williams Custom Made Boots One of the most distinctive capabilities of R.M.Williams is its ability to handcraft custom made leather footwear. This skill has been developed over the company’s history and continues to grow as new seasonal style of footwear are introduced and added to the extensive catalogue of boots that have been favourites for decades. The choice of leather types, boot styles and toe and heel shapes offered by R.M.Williams is so extensive that there are over 4,000,000 different configurations available for an individual pair of boots. More and more of the company’s loyal boot customers are making use of the legendary R.M.Williams Custom Made boot service and are creating their own original boots to suit their individual footwear needs. This incredible ability to handcraft a custom made pair of leather boots in an environment of increasing mass production has ensured R.M.Williams’ reputation as one of the world’s leading boot makers continues to grow in stature.

R.M.Williams Dynamic Flex Comfort Technology Craftsman Boots The R.M.Williams Craftsman boot is 100% Australian Made, created from over 80 handheld processes and is synonymous with comfort and the Australian identity. Worn throughout boardrooms and cattle yards across the country, Australia’s most iconic boot has become the ultimate comfort accessory through the recent development of Dynamic Flex Comfort Technology – available in the popular Craftsman and Turnout Boot styles. Ideal for frequent travellers, the R.M.Williams Dynamic Flex Comfort Craftsman Boots are fitted with a fiberglass airport friendly shank. This means that the boots will not set off airport security devices so the wearer should not have to remove them when going through security check points. The shank is also essential in reinforcing the shape of the boot and provides maximum stability and support for the wearer. The R.M.Williams Dynamic Flex Comfort Craftsman Boots feature a combination leather and rubber sole for added flexibility and softness underfoot. Textured rubber pads on the heel and tread of the sole ensure maximum durability and longevity. Wearers will also experience heightened comfort with a removable foot bed featuring a heel cradle and an arch support. The R.M.Williams Dynamic Flex Comfort Technology Craftsman Boots are available in sizes up to 12G or H at all R.M.Williams owned retail stores and selected stockists.

Order your R.M.Williams legendary boots or clothing from www.StockadeStore.com.au and receive our 100% money back guarantee, and if you don’t love them just send them back.

Clockwise from top left: Dark Tan Custom Made Executive Boots, Tanbark Kangaroo Custom Made Craftsman Boots, Brown 12 Plait Kangaroo Stockwhip 6”, Brown Channel Country Hat; Blue/Red/Sand Branxton Shirt, Sand Harcourt Trousers, Oak Dynamic Flex Comfort Craftsman Boots, Oak Padthaway Belt 2; A craftsman at work constructing our custom made boots; Chestnut Veal Calf Custom Made Craftsman Boots.

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Our Easy

6 Step

Online Order Process Wherever you live, you can always look good with our easy online order process:

STEP 1: VISIT our online store at www.StockadeStore.com.au STEP 2: CHECK OUT our massive range of top quality Men’s and Women’s shirts, jeans, boots, hats, belts and apparel from all the leading brands including Levis, Driza-Bone, R.M.Williams, Blundstone and Akubra to name a few.

STEP 3: CHOOSE your “Aussie Legend” outfit and feel assured you are 100% covered by our:

‘The Stockade’s NO RISK ‘Fit Right, Look Right’ 100% Money Back Guarantee’ If the item(s) you choose are not exactly what you wanted simply return it in its original condition and exchange it for something else or receive a full refund including postage... no matter where you are in the world.

STEP 4: ADD items to your shopping cart as you would if you were in the store.

STEP 5: If you don’t have an account, CREATE one... it only takes 50 seconds!

STEP 6: CHECK OUT when you have completed your order and you’re done!

Simple. Easy and your items will be posted out to you the same working day.

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Aussie

Legends

NED KELLY As you’re well aware, here at The Stockade we’re pretty passionate about creating Australia’s Best Dressed Aussie Legends. We’re also pretty passionate about remembering our past legends that have left their own mark in Australia’s history book for many differing reasons. Infamous Aussie Legend Ned Kelly and his incredible suit of armour are firmly etched in Australian folklore. Australia’s equivalent of Robin Hood this guy was hell bent on living life on his terms and rebelling against what was the perceived oppressive governance of the British ruling class at the time. Debate still rages today over whether Ned was nothing more than a low life anti-authority villain or a champion of the working class who was fiercely loyal to his roots and was ultimately forced into becoming a bushranger. He was definitely brave and daring, a bit of a larrikin, someone distinctly Australian. You’ve gotta love an Aussie larrikin. There’s many still around today, taking the mikey out of authority and useless politicians at times is truly a national pastime.

“A contributor to the mythology of the bush – the bush as a cradle of mateship, equality, the emphasis on the masculine virtues of strength, and the belief that the bush life was the cradle of much that was different from other lands, the cradle of the Australian, the cradle of the yearning for the life of the fearless, the free and the bold.” Professor Manning Clark What do you reckon? Sounds a lot like the bush folk of today – mateship, equality, strength and resolve. The years may have passed but living on the land still is tough with challenges that surely play their part in creating the next Aussie Legends that will live on in tomorrow’s history books. Here at The Stockade we’re playing our part making sure all our country folk are not only legends in their own right but also Australia’s Best Dressed Aussie Legends. Make sure next time you’re in town, drop in or visit www.StockadeStore.com.au, and we’ll fit you out with the best Aussie Legend clobber you’ll never find elsewhere.

Did you know, that after each of his brazen robberies he would hand one of his hostages a letter in which he explained to the government how he’d been persecuted by police. Somehow I don’t think the message quite got the desired result. Might have even stirred the authorities’ resolve to take the Kellys down. The get even definitely came to a head when Ned and his gang holed up in the Glenrowan Hotel for what would be their last stand. I bet they snuck in a few not so quiet one’s while they were there. Anyway, we all know how that battle ended. Ned survived, even though he’d been plugged with twenty-eight bullet wounds to the arms, legs, groin, feet and hands. Whatever your opinion Ned’s story and some of the images of his battles are a record of this countries past and remind us of the tough times and conditions faced by the people of the day. Amazingly, Ned’s legendary career of mayhem and murder only lasted 3 years, and he was only 26 years old when he was hanged. I wonder what Ned would say today if he knew how much of an impact his legacy had left on the development of this country into what it has become today.

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Legends

THE LIGHT HORSEMEN You may have heard the stories about our Aussie Bush Legends like The Man from Snowy River and Clancy of the Overﬂow, however the men of the Australian Light Horse Brigade in World War I were real. Their legacy is profound and all Australians can be proud to be just a small part of that legacy. The Light Horsemen had an amazing affinity with their horses. Some took their own, others broke in new mounts, looking after them while travelling overseas and keeping them all through the desert campaigns. They rode Australian stock horses, a mixture of Thoroughbred, Arab, Timor pony and wild Brumby. Known as Walers, because the first ones came from New South Wales...they had a reputation for grit, sure-footedness and stamina. The tradition of Light Horsemen wearing emu plumes in their slouch hats, started with the Queensland Mounted Infantry, back in the 1890s. Mounted troopers used to test their skills by racing after wild emus. When they caught one, still at a gallop, they’d pull out a couple of the terrified bird’s chest feathers and proudly tuck them into their hatbands. Despite some objections from Queensland regiments, emu feathers caught on to become the proud symbol of all Australian Light Horsemen. Sometimes called ‘kangaroo feathers’, they were something not to be insulted by anyone. The Light Horsemens’ finest hour came on 31 October 1917, with one of the most audacious actions in modern warfare... the charge at Beersheba. In a last ditch effort to save the attacking British army from disaster, they were to attempt the near impossible, a cavalry charge across five kilometres of open desert, against 4,400 entrenched infantry, supported by machine guns and artillery. Surely a suicide mission.

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Three lines of Light Horsemen a mile wide, thundered across the dusty plain. Screaming like banshees and brandishing bayonets that glinted in the dying sun, they were terrifying, unstoppable. The Turkish lines were breached and the day won. Amazingly, only 36 out of those gallant 800 Light Horsemen lost their lives in that incredible charge. Beersheba was the last successful cavalry charge in history, yet it was made by men who were neither cavalry nor professional soldiers. They were volunteers, mostly from the outback and the bush, who had been formed only three years earlier. The Light Horse tradition proudly lives on in Royal Australian Armoured Corps, Cavalry units, equipped not with horses, but light armoured vehicles. The legendary men of the Light Horse inspire all of us to this day. Their amazing bravery will live on. At the age of 19, Trooper Ernest Craggs of the 12th Light Horse Regiment was the first soldier to fall during the charge of Beersheba. Although his life was tragically cut short, Trooper Craggs embodied all that was special and unique about our Australian Soldiers. His commanding officer Lieutenant Edward Ralston recalled in a letter to his mother that ‘the day before the fight he was laughing and joking as usual and was full of spirit all through the long night ride. He rode into action just behind me and the last I saw of him, he was standing in his stirrups and cheering’.

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Australia’s Films, Books and Music Film Australia’s extensive film credits include a comic pig called Babe, the post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies, and the gender-bending road movie, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Our movies have pushed actors like Nicole Kidman, Judy Davis, Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and the swashbuckling Errol Flynn onto the world stage. Australia the country also often gets a starring role, with landscapes that range from foreboding to romantic and sublime.

Some of our starring locations: •T he wetlands, waterfalls and rainforest of World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park featured in the hit movie Crocodile Dundee and the 2007 horror film Rogue. •T en Canoes and Yolngu Boy were filmed in Aboriginal-owned Arnhem Land, 91,000 square kilometres of unspoiled wilderness to the east of Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. •D irector Phillip Noyce shot his thriller Dead Calm in Hamilton Island and the

Great Barrier Reef, with stars Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane and Sam Neill. The animated cast of Finding Nemo also began their colourful cinematic journey amongst these World Heritage-listed corals. •D irector Terrence Malick’s fictional World War II story The Thin Red Line was shot largely in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland’s far north. Scooby-Doo, Lost World, Ghost Ship and Peter Pan were all filmed at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast in Queensland.

Books Australia’s strong literary tradition began with the stories and songs of Aboriginal Australians and continued with the yarns of the first convicts. Contemporary Australian novelists whose work has a particularly Australian flavour include Patrick White, Peter Carey, Bryce Courtenay, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Jolley, Thomas Keneally, Christopher Koch, David Malouf, Colleen McCullough, Christina Stead, Morris West and Tim Winton.

Some of our famous authors: • Patrick White was inspired by Australians’ relationship with the land and examined, often satirically, the conflict between inner consciousness and social existence. He wrote a dozen novels from Happy Valley (1939) to the Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Voss (1957) to Memoirs of Many in One (1986). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature award in 1973. • Thomas Keneally’s 1972 novel The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1982, Keneally won the Man Booker Prize with Schindler’s Ark, a story which Stephen

Spielberg made into the film Schindler’s List in 1993. •C hristopher Koch’s 1978 book The Year of Living Dangerously was also made into a film, directed by Peter Weir. •E lizabeth Jolley won the 1986 Miles Franklin Award for her novel The Well. •P eter Carey won the Man Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. •D avid Malouf was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon. His other awardwinning novels include Johnno, Fly Away Peter and An Imaginary Life.

Music Aboriginal Australians were the continent’s first musicians, passing down their culture through songs accompanied by wind instruments like the didgeridoo. The first nonIndigenous music was rooted strongly in folk, with early bush ballads lamenting the hardship and isolation of a new land. Successive waves of settlers - starting with British, Irish and Scottish convicts – continued to shape this tradition. Country music grew out of this tradition and by the 1930s was a huge part of Australia country life. Jazz emerged during the 1920s and grew strongly in popularity, particularly after the Second World War. Australia is well known for its original rock and popular music, with foundations laid by artists such as Johnny O’Keefe,

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the Easybeats, AC/DC, INXS, Men at Work, Crowded House, Midnight Oil, John Farnham and Olivia NewtonJohn. Opera in Australia started in the early 19th century and today Opera Australia is one of the world’s busiest opera companies and has the spectacular Sydney Opera House as its home. Each of Australia’s eight states and territories has a symphony orchestra and the smaller Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra also have worldclass status. Australia’s many migrants from around 200 countries continue to enrich Australian music.

Some of our talented musicians: • Frank Coughlan played with the first jazz group to come to Australia in 1924 and Graeme Bell, regarded as the ‘father of Australian jazz’, toured Europe in the late 1940s to great acclaim. Don Burrows, innovative alto saxophonist Bernie McGann and James Morrison are other influential names continuing to make a mark on the scene today. •F rom the 1930s into the 1950s country music artists like New Zealand-born Tex Morton, Buddy Williams, Smoky Dawson and Slim Dusty had a huge following. Newer Australian country stars include Lee Kernaghan, Gina Jeffreys, James Blundell, Kasey Chambers, Beccy Cole, Troy CassarDaley and Keith Urban, who is now a big name in Nashville.

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•M ission Impossible 2 and George Miller’s three Mad Max films capitalised on the surreal, dusty landscapes around Broken Hill and Silverton in outback New South Wales. For Babe, Miller chose the lush green pasturelands of Robertson and Exeter in the state’s Southern Highlands. •S ydney was the location for some of the heart-stopping stunts in Mission Impossible 2. It was also a location in The Matrix, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding,

• Tim Winton won the Miles Franklin Award for Shallows in 1986, Cloudstreet in 1991 and Dirt Music in 2002. Both Dirt Music and his 1995 novel The Riders were short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. • DBC Pierre won the Man Booker Prize for Vernon God Little in 2003. • Former journalist Geraldine Brooks received international acclaim with Nine Parts of Desire in 1994 and Year of Wonders in 2001. Her novel March won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. • Helen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist who came to

•K azakhstan-born virtuoso guitarist Slava Grigoryan explores the Argentinean tango and Brazilian bossa nova. Violinists Richard Tognetti and Barbara Jane Gilby, pianists Roger Woodward, Geoffrey Tozer, Simon Tedeschi and Duncan Gifford, and conductor and violinist Nicholas Milton have been acclaimed on Australian and world stages. •C onductor Simone Young has established a world-wide reputation as a leading conductor of her generation. •A ustralia has produced several internationally-renown opera stars, including Dame Nellie Melba, whose 38year career started in 1887, and Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the world’s greatest operatic sopranos.

Two Hands, Babe: Pig in the City, Lantana, Dirty Deeds and Superman Returns. •T he Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert follows the journey of three drag queens from glitzy Sydney to South Australia’s opal mining town of Coober Pedy and Kings Canyon in the Northern Territory.

•T he Man from Snowy River and Ned Kelly were filmed in Victoria’s High Country, where horse and walking trails intersect with snow gums, mountain views and bushranger history. •S outh Australia’s rugged Flinders Ranges was the setting for The Tracker and the award-winning Rabbit Proof Fence.

•M elbourne in Victoria was the location for The Story of the Kelly Gang, On the Beach, Chopper, Kenny, Ghost Rider and Romper Stomper.

• J apanese Story, starring Toni Collette as a geologist, was filmed around Perth and the Pilbara region.

prominence at a time when Australian women writers were relatively few in number. Her books include her debut novel Monkey Grip (1977) and more recent non-fiction works such as The First Stone (1995) Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004).

•A ustralia’s top selling novelist, Bryce Courtenay wrote his first novel The Power of One at the age of 55. This and Courtenay’s other books – including The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, Jessica, Smoky Joe’s Café and Matthew Flinders’ Cat – have sold around five million copies in Australia alone.

• Kate Grenville’s 2006 historical novel The Secret River was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. • Colleen McCullough’s books include her first novel Tim in 1974, the 1977 bestseller The Thorn Birds and the seven-part Masters of Rome series.

•T he ancient songlines of traditional Indigenous music continues through contemporary artists as diverse as Jimmy Little, Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter. •A ustralian rock music first became popular in the 1950s, with artists such as Johnny O’Keefe topping international charts. In the 1960s, groups such as Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, The Easybeats, and The Bee Gees attracted a big following. •P ub rock – defined by simple musical arrangements and the raw energy of live performances – was huge in the 1980s, typified by Mental As Anything, Midnight Oil, The Angels, Cold Chisel and Icehouse. INXS and Men at Work also achieved worldwide fame, with the song

•B est-selling author Kathy Lette co-wrote the Australian teenage classic Puberty Blues (1979) and has since made a name for risqué, rollicking novels such as Mad Cows, Girls Night Out and Dead Sexy.

Down Under becoming an unofficial Australian anthem. • I n the 1990s many indie rock bands began to hit the charts, including Regurgitator, You Am I, Powderfinger, Silverchair and Something for Kate. •A ustralian hip hop had emerged in the 1980s, with a distinctive local style evident by the 1990s. Groups such as the Hilltop Hoods won international acclaim for their work. •A ustralia’s most successful pop export Kylie Minogue has released nine albums and sold in excess of 60 million records. •T he national government-funded youth radio station, Triple J, actively promotes new Australian talent.

SOURCE www.australia.com

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Australian Culture

Australian culture is founded on stories of battlers, bushrangers and brave soldiers. Of sporting heroes, working heroes and plucky migrants. It’s all about a fair go, the great outdoors and a healthy helping of irony. Today Australia also defines itself by its Aboriginal heritage, vibrant mix of cultures, innovative ideas and a thriving arts scene.

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Aboriginal Culture: a rich and timeless tradition

The Dreamtime is the sacred ‘time before time’ of the world’s creation. According to Aboriginal belief, totemic spirit ancestors emerged from the earth and descended from the sky to awaken a dark and silent world. They created the sun, moon and stars, forged mountains, rivers, trees and waterholes and changed into human and animal forms. Spirit ancestors connect this ancient past with the present and future through every aspect of Aboriginal culture. Rock art, craft and bark painting reveal Dreamtime stories, mark territory and record history, while songs tell of Dreamtime journeys, verbally mapping water sources and other essential landmarks. Their special lyrics have been passed down virtually unchanged for at least 50,000 years, and are often accompanied by clapsticks or the deep throb of the didgeridoo. Similarly, traditional dances reveal creation myths, enact the deeds of Dreamtime heroes and even recent historical events.

bushrangers Colonial Myths: battlers, and brave soldiers a ‘fair go’

hip and Australians believe in mates for the underdog or n ctio and have a strong affe from convicts and early ‘battler’. These values stem against a harsh and colonialists who struggled ust authority. Australia’s unj n unfamiliar land and ofte t Ned Kelly protested agains most famous bushranger tem sys ss cla ish a Brit the poverty and injustice of convicts. This flawed the h wit ng alo e her d ppe shi rty’ and ‘innocent libe and tice hero’s fight for ‘jus as part of the national people’ has been embraced books and movies. ss culture and inspired countle 50s, diggers were -18 mid On the goldfields of the gs as romantic heroes, portrayed in stories and son braced democracy. larrikins and villains who em ckade, where Victorian Sto The bloody 1854 Eureka authoritarian licensing miners rose up against an a triumph of social system, came to symbolise War I, the courageous rld equality. Later, during Wo in Gallipoli gave new ANZAC soldiers who served Aussie’. meaning to the term ‘tough

Sporting Heros: the glory of green and gold

It’s no secret that Australians are sports mad. With more than 120 national and thousands of local, regional and state sporting organisations, it’s estimated that six-and-a-half million people in Australia are registered sport participants. Not bad from a population of just over 21 million! The number one watched sport in Australia is Australian Rules Football (AFL) with its high kicks and balletic leaps, while the brute force and tackling tactics of National Rugby League (NRL) reign supreme in New South Wales and Queen sland. Australia’s national Rugby Union team, the Wallabies play on the international circuit and in the Bledisloe Cup, part of a Tri Nations tournament with South Africa. Australia is a nation of swimmers and Olympic medals attest to our performance in the pool. All summer we watch the Australian cricket team in their whites and in January, we flick channels to see the tennis Australian Open. Held in Melbourne, this attracts more people to Australia than any other sporting event. Footb all is a growth sport, we draw world-class surfers for the Bells Beach Surf Classic and on Boxing Day crowds gather to watch the boats sail out of Sydney Harbour for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. On the first Tuesday in November, the nation stops for the famous horse race, the Melbourne Cup while and in March rev heads converge in Melbo urne for the Formula One Grand Prix. The list of sports we love goes on, and if in doubt about the rules just ask a passionate punter.

Australian English: ‘Strine’

Australians have a unique colloquial language, coined ‘strine’ by linguist Alastair Morrison (imagine saying Australian with your teeth gritted to keep out the flies) in 1966. This combines many long lost cockney and Irish sayings of the early convicts with words from Aboriginal languages. We often abbreviate words and then add an ‘o’ or ‘ie’ on the end as in ‘bring your cossie to the barbie this arvo’. We also like reverse nicknames, calling people with red hair ‘bluey’, saying ‘snowy’ to someone with dark hair, and tagging ‘lofty’ to someone who is small in stature. We tend to flatten our vowels and end sentences with a slightly upward inflection.

An Outdoor Lifestyle: beach and barbeques

With more than 80 per cent of Australians living within 50 kilometres of the coast, the beach has become an integral part of our famous laid-back lifestyle. From Saturday morning surf-club training for young ‘nippers’ to a game of beach cricket after a barbeque, we love life on our sandy shores. We jostle for a spot on packed city beaches, relax at popular holiday spots and drive to secret, secluded beaches in coastal national parks. We go to the beach to enjoy the sun and surf or to sail, parasail, fish, snorkel, scuba dive and beach comb. It’s where we socialise and play sport, relax and enjoy romance. It’s also the site for celebration. On New Year’s Eve, revellers dance in the sand and watch fireworks at Manly and Bondi beaches in Sydney and Glenelg in Adelaide. Many beaches host citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day and on Christmas Day up to 40,000 international visitors converge on Bondi Beach wearing Santa hats and swimming costumes. Australia’s most famous beaches - Bondi and Manly in Sydney, St Kilda in Melbourne, Surfers Paradise on the Queensland Gold Coast, Cottesloe in Perth and Glenelg in Adelaide – attract locals as well as international tourists.

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Multiculturalism: diverse food, festivals and faith Since 1945 more than six million people from across the world have come to Australia to live. Today, more than 20 per cent of Australians are foreign born and more than 40 per cent are of mixed cultural origin. In our homes we speak 226 languages - after English, the most popular are Italian, Greek, Cantonese and Arabic. Our rich cultural diversity is reflected in our food, which embraces most of the world’s cuisines and artfully fuses quite a few of them. You’ll find European flavours, the tantalising spices of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and bush tucker from our backyard on offer everywhere from street stalls to five star restaurants. Tuck into Thai takeaway, dine out on perfect Italian pasta, do tapas in our city’s Spanish strips and feast on dumplings in Chinatown. You can also embrace our melting pot of cultures in the many colourful festivals. See samba and capoeira at Bondi’s Brazilian South American festival, dance behind the dragon parade during Chinese New Year or stroll through streets transformed into a lively piazza during the annual Italian celebrations. As a nation, we embrace a rainbow of religious belief and you’ll find Catholic and Anglican churches, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist temples, mosques and synagogues lining our streets.

Australian innovations: from the Hills Hoist to Penicillin Australia’s unique geography and relative isolation has made it a fertile ground for new ideas. In 1879, Australians developed a way for ice to be manufactured artificially, allowing us to export meat to Great Britain on refrigerated ships. In 1906, the surf lifesaving reel was designed so lifesavers could reach distressed swimmers with a rope attached to their vests. In 1929, Alfred Traeger built a pedal-powered radio as the communications for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Australians were also responsible for more everyday inventions such as notepads (1902), aspirin (1915), the pacemaker (1926), penicillin (1940) the Hills Hoist clothesline (1946), the plastic disposable syringe (1949), the wine cask (1965), the bionic ear (1978), dual-flush toilet flush (1980), anti-counterfeiting technology for banknotes (1992) and long-wearing contact lenses (1999). Long before European colonisation, the Aboriginal people were already leading the world. They invented the aerodynamic boomerang and a type of spear thrower called the woomera. They were also the first society to use ground edges on stone cutting tools and the first to use stone tools to grind seeds, everyday tools which were developed only much later by other societies.

Culture cravings: theatre, film, books and visual art From theatre to literature, Australians have a quiet love affair with the arts. We flock to the movies and our attendance at galleries and performing arts is almost double that for all football codes. Our cities play host to a huge array of cutting-edge cultural festivals, and offer music, theatre and dance performances and art exhibitions every day of the week. See traditional Aboriginal dance performance by the Bangarra Dance Theatre, throw yourself into the WOMADelaide international music festival in Adelaide and soak up theatre, ballet, opera and painting in Brisbane’s huge cultural centre on South Bank. In smaller towns you can catch performances by local musicians and see hand-made art and craft. SOURCE www.australia.com

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Waltzing Matilda Once a jolly swagman sat beside the billabong, Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong You’ll come aa waltzing Matilda with me Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me. Down came a jumbuck to drink beside the billabong Up jumped the swagman and seized him with glee And he sang as he tucked jumbuck in his tuckerbag You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me. Down came the stockman, riding on his thoroughbred, Down came the troopers, one, two, three. “Where’s the jolly jumbuck you’ve got in your tuckerbag? You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me. Up jumped the swagman and plunged into the billabong, “You’ll never catch me alive,” cried he And his ghost may be heard as you ride beside the billabong, You’ll come a waltzing matilda with me. Authentic Australian Version, credited to A.B. (Banjo) Paterson

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Thomas Cook Snr. 1908 - 2007 1957: Thomas Cook Snr. working on a stitching machine in our boot factory. 1995: Thomas Cook Snr. inspecting production.

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Footwear 2011

Thomas Cook Boot & Clothing – Quality footwear is a long standing tradition... Synonymous with the Australian outback and spirit of the bush, Thomas Cook Boot & Clothing Co. is an iconic representation of true Australian life. In 1924, Thomas Cook Snr. (1908-2007) began making handcrafted footwear from an inner city suburb of Melbourne. He had arrived from Fremantle, Western Australia as an orphaned 16 year old with big dreams of making a name for himself as a flyweight boxer. Although he never achieved pugilistic fame, a lifetime of boot making established a tradition of innovation and craftsmanship, and the brand Thomas Cook was born.

While design, technology and manufacturing has changed since 1924, our boot making practices and philosophies remain the same. We still construct footwear today using over 80 handheld methods that ensures the quality and standards set by Thomas Cook Snr. remain the same. As Thomas Cook Snr. proclaimed “My name is on the line” and his declaration to deliver quality footwear embodies our company mission statement and values today. Every piece of footwear that presents the Thomas Cook label has been designed, engineered and developed with these principles in mind; they encompass our tradition of quality workmanship and pride in everything we do.

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The Man from Snowy River There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around That the colt from old Regret had got away, And had joined the wild bush horses -- he was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered to the fray. All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far Had mustered at the homestead overnight, For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are, And the stock-horse snuffs the battle with delight. There was Harrison, who made his pile when Pardon won the cup, The old man with his hair as white as snow; But few could ride beside him when his blood was fairly up -He would go wherever horse and man could go. And Clancy of the Overflow came down to lend a hand, No better horseman ever held the reins; For never horse could throw him while the saddle-girths would stand, He learnt to ride while droving on the plains. And one was there, a stripling on a small and weedy beast, He was something like a racehorse undersized, With a touch of Timor pony -- three parts thoroughbred at least -And such as are by mountain horsemen prized. He was hard and tough and wiry -- just the sort that won’t say die -There was courage in his quick impatient tread; And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye, And the proud and lofty carriage of his head. But still so slight and weedy, one would doubt his power to stay, And the old man said, “That horse will never do For a long and tiring gallop -- lad, you’d better stop away, Those hills are far too rough for such as you.” So he waited sad and wistful -- only Clancy stood his friend -“I think we ought to let him come,” he said; “I warrant he’ll be with us when he’s wanted at the end, For both his horse and he are mountain bred.” “He hails from Snowy River, up by Kosciusko’s side, Where the hills are twice as steep and twice as rough, Where a horse’s hoofs strike firelight from the flint stones every stride, The man that holds his own is good enough. And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home, Where the river runs those giant hills between; I have seen full many horsemen since I first commenced to roam, But nowhere yet such horsemen have I seen.” So he went -- they found the horses by the big mimosa clump -They raced away towards the mountain’s brow, And the old man gave his orders, “Boys, go at them from the jump, No use to try for fancy riding now. And, Clancy, you must wheel them, try and wheel them to the right. Ride boldly, lad, and never fear the spills, For never yet was rider that could keep the mob in sight, If once they gain the shelter of those hills.” So Clancy rode to wheel them -- he was racing on the wing Where the best and boldest riders take their place, And he raced his stock-horse past them, and he made the ranges ring With the stockwhip, as he met them face to face. Then they halted for a moment, while he swung the dreaded lash, But they saw their well-loved mountain full in view, And they charged beneath the stockwhip with a sharp and sudden dash, And off into the mountain scrub they flew.

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Then fast the horsemen followed, where the gorges deep and black Resounded to the thunder of their tread, And the stockwhips woke the echoes, and they fiercely answered back From cliffs and crags that beetled overhead. And upward, ever upward, the wild horses held their way, Where mountain ash and kurrajong grew wide; And the old man muttered fiercely, “We may bid the mob good day, No man can hold them down the other side.” When they reached the mountain’s summit, even Clancy took a pull, It well might make the boldest hold their breath, The wild hop scrub grew thickly, and the hidden ground was full Of wombat holes, and any slip was death. But the man from Snowy River let the pony have his head, And he swung his stockwhip round and gave a cheer, And he raced him down the mountain like a torrent down its bed, While the others stood and watched in very fear. He sent the flint stones flying, but the pony kept his feet, He cleared the fallen timber in his stride, And the man from Snowy River never shifted in his seat -It was grand to see that mountain horseman ride. Through the stringy barks and saplings, on the rough and broken ground, Down the hillside at a racing pace he went; And he never drew the bridle till he landed safe and sound, At the bottom of that terrible descent. He was right among the horses as they climbed the further hill, And the watchers on the mountain standing mute, Saw him ply the stockwhip fiercely, he was right among them still, As he raced across the clearing in pursuit. Then they lost him for a moment, where two mountain gullies met In the ranges, but a final glimpse reveals On a dim and distant hillside the wild horses racing yet, With the man from Snowy River at their heels. And he ran them single-handed till their sides were white with foam. He followed like a bloodhound on their track, Till they halted cowed and beaten, then he turned their heads for home, And alone and unassisted brought them back. But his hardy mountain pony he could scarcely raise a trot, He was blood from hip to shoulder from the spur; But his pluck was still undaunted, and his courage fiery hot, For never yet was mountain horse a cur. And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise Their torn and rugged battlements on high, Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze At midnight in the cold and frosty sky, And where around the Overflow the reedbeds sweep and sway To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide, The man from Snowy River is a household word to-day, And the stockmen tell the story of his ride. Banjo Paterson

In the ballads and poetry of Banjo Paterson are captured the spirit of the Australian Outback, and the essences of the bushmen and women who pioneered it. The vast distances, the droughts, the floods, the flies, the heat... and the harsh and beautiful places of Outback Australia were brought to the city people of the late 1880s through the writings of Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson. A true folk poet, a recorder and publisher of Australian Bush Songs, Banjo brought the legendary magic of the Australian bush into the household, the schools and the government. His mythical ballad Waltzing Matilda would be described as Australia’s unofficial national anthem, and there is no doubt he contributed much to Australia’s heritage. As written by The Mountain Man, PRF Brown A proud feature of the Thomas Cook logo is the silhouette of the legendary Man from Snowy River. This famous Australian legend, depicted as a man on a horse, is the iconic symbol of the Thomas Cook heritage and brand, and embraces the journey that we travel upon with our customers.

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Australia’s History 50,000BC

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ABORIGINAL PEOPLE DREAM ON A TIMELESS CONTINENT

BRITAIN ARRIVES AND BRINGS HER CONVICTS

SQUATTERS PUSH ACROSS THE CONTINENT

GOLD FEVER BRINGS WEALTH, MIGRANTS AND REBELLION

A number of European explorers sailed the coast of Australia, then known as New Holland, in the 17th century. However it wasn’t until 1770 that Captain James Cook chartered the east coast and claimed it for Britain. The new outpost was put to use as a penal colony and on 26 January 1788, the First Fleet of 11 ships carrying 1,500 people – half of them convicts – arrived in Sydney Harbour. Until penal transportation ended in 1868, 160,000 men and women came to Australia as convicts.

By the 1820s, many soldiers, officers and emancipated convicts had turned land they received from the government into flourishing farms. News of Australia’s cheap land and bountiful work was bringing more and more boatloads of adventurous migrants from Britain. Settlers or ‘squatters’ began to move deeper into Aboriginal territories – often with a gun - in search of pasture and water for their stock.

Australia’s Aboriginal people were thought to have arrived here by boat from South East Asia during the last Ice Age, at least 50,000 years ago. At the time of European discovery and settlement, up to one million Aboriginal people lived across the continent as hunters and gatherers. They were scattered in 300 clans and spoke 250 languages and 700 dialects. Each clan had a spiritual connection with a specific piece of land. However, they also travelled widely to trade, find water and seasonal produce and for ritual and totemic gatherings. Despite the diversity of their homelands - from outback deserts and tropical rainforests to snow-capped mountains – all Aboriginal people share a belief in the timeless, magical realm of the Dreamtime. According to Aboriginal myth, totemic spirit ancestors forged all aspects of life during the Dreamtime of the world’s creation. These spirit ancestors continue to connect natural phenomena, as well as past, present and future through every aspect of Aboriginal culture.

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While free settlers began to flow in from the early 1790s, life for prisoners was harsh. Women were outnumbered five to one and lived under constant threat of sexual exploitation. Male re-offenders were brutally flogged and could be hung for crimes as petty as stealing. The Aboriginal people displaced by the new settlement suffered even more. The dispossession of land and illness and death from introduced diseases disrupted traditional lifestyles and practices.

In 1825, a party of soldiers and convicts settled in the territory of the Yuggera people, close to modern-day Brisbane. Perth was settled by English gentlemen in 1829, and 1835 a squatter sailed to Port Phillip Bay and chose the location for Melbourne. At the same time a private British company, proud to have no convict links, settled Adelaide in South Australia.

Gold was discovered in New South Wales and central Victoria in 1851, luring thousands of young men and some adventurous young women from the colonies. They were joined by boat loads of prospectors from China and a chaotic carnival of entertainers, publicans, illicit liquorsellers, prostitutes and quacks from across the world. In Victoria, the British governor’s attempts to impose order - a monthly licence and heavy-handed troopers - led to the bloody antiauthoritarian struggle of the Eureka stockade in 1854. Despite the violence on the goldfields, the wealth from gold and wool brought immense investment to Melbourne and Sydney and by the 1880s they were stylish modern cities.

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Since the Dreamtime...

1901 AUSTRALIA BECOMES A NATION Australia’s six states became a nation under a single constitution on 1 January 1901. Today Australia is home to people from more than 200 countries.

1914

NEW AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE TO AUSTRALIANS A POST WAR GO TO BOOM WAR The First World War had a devastating effect on Australia. There were less than 3 million men in 1914, yet almost 400,000 of them volunteered to fight in the war. An estimated 60,000 died and tens of thousands were wounded. In reaction to the grief, the 1920s was a whirlwind of new cars and cinemas, American jazz and movies and fervour for the British Empire. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, social and economic divisions widened and many Australian financial institutions failed. Sport was the national distraction and sporting heroes such as the racehorse Phar Lap and cricketer Donald Bradman gained nearmythical status. During the Second World War, Australian forces made a significant contribution to the Allied victory in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. The generation that fought in the war and survived came out of it with a sense of pride in Australia’s capabilities.

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1945

After the war ended in 1945, hundreds of thousands of migrants from across Europe and the Middle East arrived in Australia, many finding jobs in the booming manufacturing sector. Many of the women who took factory jobs while the men were at war continued to work during peacetime. Australia’s economy grew throughout the 1950s with major nationbuilding projects such as the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in the mountains near Canberra. International demand grew for Australia’s major exports of metals, wools, meat and wheat and suburban Australia also prospered. The rate of home ownership rose dramatically from barely 40 per cent in 1947 to more than 70 per cent by the 1960s.

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AUSTRALIA LOOSENS UP

SINCE THE 1970S

Like many other countries, Between 1983 and 1996, Australia was swept up in the the Hawke–Keating Labor revolutionary atmosphere of governments introduced the 1960s. Australia’s new a number of economic ethnic diversity, increasing reforms, such as independence from Britain deregulating the banking and popular resistance to the system and floating the Vietnam War all contributed Australian dollar. In 1996 to an atmosphere of political, a Coalition Government economic and social change. led by John Howard won the general election and In 1967, Australians voted was re-elected in 1998, overwhelmingly ‘yes’ in a 2001 and 2004. The national raeferendum to let the federal government make Liberal–National Coalition Government enacted laws on behalf of Aboriginal Australians and include them several reforms, including changes in the taxation in future censuses. The result and industrial relations was the culmination of a systems. In 2007 the strong reform campaign by Labor Party led by Kevin both Aboriginal and white Rudd was elected with Australians. an agenda to reform In 1972, the Australian Labor Australia’s industrial Party under the idealistic relations system, climate leadership of lawyer Gough change policies, and Whitlam was elected to health and education power, ending the post-war sectors. domination of the Liberal the White Australia and Country Party coalition. policy, embraced Over the next three years, multiculturalism and his new government ended introduced no-fault conscription, abolished divorce and equal university fees and pay for women. introduced free universal However by 1975, health care. It abandoned inflation and scandal the White Australia policy, led to the Governorembraced multiculturalism General dismissing and introduced no-fault the government. In the divorce and equal pay for subsequent general women. However by 1975, election, the Labor Party inflation and scandal led suffered a major defeat to the Governor-General and the Liberal–National dismissing the government. Coalition ruled until 1983. In the subsequent general election, the Labor Party suffered a major defeat and the Liberal–National Coalition ruled until 1983.

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Akubra For over a century, Akubra’s fine felt hats have adorned and protected generations of Australians. Akubra started out as a small family operation in Tasmania. In 1874 Benjamin Dunkerley arrived in Tasmania from England and decided to start a hat making business in Hobart. His skills as a hatter were backed by his ability to invent machinery, and soon after his arrival he had developed a mechanical method of removing the hair tip from rabbit fur so the under-fur could be used in felt hat making. Previously this task had to be done by hand. In the early 1900s Dunkerley moved the business to Crown Street, Surry Hills, an inner suburb of Sydney, setting up a small hat making factory. In 1904 Stephen Keir I, who had also migrated from England, joined Dunkerley. Keir had hat making experience from England, and was seen as a valuable acquisition for the business. In 1905 he married Ada Dunkerley, Benjamin’s daughter and soon after was made General Manager. Since that time the hat making firm has been in the hands of succeeding generations of the Keir family. In 1911, the business became Dunkerley Hat Mills Ltd, and had a mere nineteen employees. The trade name “Akubra” came into use in 1912. The increasing popularity resulted in the move to larger premises in Bourke Street, Waterloo and expanded production, especially of Slouch hats during World War I. Soon after all hats were branded Akubra. When Dunkerley died in 1925, ownership of the business transferred to Stephen Keir I. The business continued to flourish and when Stephen Keir retired in 1952 he was succeeded as Managing Director by his eldest son, Herbert. His second son, Stephen Keir II, served as General Manager and became Managing Director in 1972. His son, Stephen Keir III, became Managing Director in 1980. Another son, Graham, joined the firm in 1972, first as sales representative for Northern NSW and later as National Sales Manager. Unfortunately, Graham died prematurely in 1987. Stephen Keir III retired as Managing Director on 31st December 2007, allowing his son and fourth generation of the Keir family, Stephen Keir IV, to assume the mantle of Managing Director. In 2010, after working with the company for more than 56 years, Stephen Keir III O.A.M stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Stephen Keir IV, who has worked with the Akubra company for more than 20 years, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. So the family tradition continues. The Akubra Hat Factory is now based on the mid north coast of New South Wales in the town of Kempsey, having relocated from Sydney in 1974.

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The Art of Hat Making Akubra is the only complete fur felt manufacturer left in Australia. Each individual hat passes through at least 70 sets of hands and more than 100 individual processes. Fur felt is the strongest natural fabric produced, as the individual fibres are tightly interlocked in production to form a dense, tough matrix. This is what makes Akubra Hats so durable.

Styling Akubra currently manufactures more than 100 individual styles of hats in a diverse range of popular colours. There is a style to suit every person and all styles can be worn by both men and women.

Sun Protection Akubra Hats regularly independently tests its fur felt hats for Ultraviolet Protection and are currently rated at UPF 50+, and as such are classified as EXCELLENT under the UPF Classification System. This is the highest classification achievable under this system. Over the years Akubra has maintained its ability to be in vogue. Our hats have become a vital part of Australia’s identity; worn by soldiers, Olympians, politicians, personalities and of course, loyal, everyday countrymen and women. Our brand name and reputation is renowned for quality and you can be assured that, should you decide to purchase an Akubra Hat, it will serve you well for years to come.

For more information about our company and products or to see the manufacturing process first hand please visit our website at

www.akubra.com.au

Opposite: Several generations of the ‘Akubra’ family. Clockwise from top left: Akubra Cattleman, Coolibah, Stony Creek, Stylemaster, Military,Outback Club Hi Sand.

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Driza-bone Since 1898 Driza-Bone has been producing genuine, rugged apparel made for the individuals and industries that have shaped our nation and created our Australian outdoor way of life.

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Driza-Bone’s early reputation was forged on the clipper ships plying the wild southern seas. For over 110 years, Driza-Bone has been part of Australia’s rural heritage—the great industries of wool, wheat and livestock.

It has clothed the men who built the railways, roads and highways of Australia. Driza-Bone served in two world wars and travelled with the Australian explorers from the Antarctic to the mountains of the Himalayas. The brand is an intrinsic part of our nation’s history. Today, Driza-Bone’s style of outdoor apparel offers a simple, comfortable, hard wearing approach to modern living. Driza-Bone is authentic and understated clothing, from work to weekend, for city, coast and country.

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Earl Carter Words: Stephen Bennett Driza-Bone is pleased to present some of the wonderful work of Australian photographer Earl Carter as part of an exciting new collaboration. Earl Carter is a freelance photographer with an impressive career stretching over twenty years. Earl is passionate about working in Australia, and his work is strongly influenced by its life, spirit, art and architecture. This inspiration drives all of his work, whether it’s on home ground or for one of his many international shoots for clients, which include British Airways, Qantas, BHP, Conran Design, Irish Tourist Board, Belle magazine, Vogue Entertaining and Travel, Vogue Living Australia, Elle Living Australia, Elle Decore Italy and Martha Stewart Living. Creative Director Stephen Bennett spoke to Earl Carter about his incredible landscape images and their shared passion for the rugged climes of outback Australia. SB: Looking at the shots I have selected, can you tell us why we’ve picked them, and why we love them so much? EC: Well, that’s because they are quintessential Australian images—iconic. The beauty in them is raw and genuine. SB: Can you tell us about the Silo shot (centre spread)? EC: The one with the silo is just outside of Adelaide, on the fringe of the western districts, which is interesting because that whole community is built around the one industry (wheat)— or it used to be. The iconic silo that you can see in the shot is no longer used. SB: These look like personal shots… EC: Yeah, yeah absolutely. SB: That may be why I’m drawn to them—they seem like they come from genuine experience. EC: Yeah, the rawness about it is what is appealing, really. It is genuine. There is nothing fabricated there or altered or... it’s what it is, right? In its raw state. SB: So, thinking about your early shots all over the world in every country, what would you say is unique about Australia? Is there a fundamental difference, or is the appreciation of the Australian landscape relative to personal experience? EC: No, no! The difference is fundamental. It is quality of life. We are blessed here, and we have big skies. SB: You have also taken some amazingly raw shots in Africa. EC: Different style of life. You know, we have so much desert. If you want to get technical, actually it reflects back into the sky, so there is a faint greenish light in the sky. Whereas, if you were in jungle in somewhere, in Brazil for example, there is a much larger proportion of green light because the light hits the forest and canopy and bounces back. Australian light is raw and harsh by comparison. Sounds a bit wonky but it is the truth, it really is. You go to Europe and you don’t get that. We spent years trying to emulate European light and then the Europeans come out here and try to shoot our light. A bit of a cross-over [laughs]. SB: As you mentioned, you take your photographs on location while you’re travelling. Is that something you always make time for? Do you put aside days to go out and take these shots or are they sort of captured in the moment? EC: They are captured in the moment. I mean, you rarely dedicate time. But you always find yourself in unique environments, and being a visual person, you can’t help but to record them. The aim for me is to capture the essence and intent of the image — it’s ‘real life’, you could say.

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SB: You experienced a series of coincidences beginning with your journey to the Himalayas, and involving a photographer called Alfred Gregory. Tell us that story. EC: I was in the Himalayas by myself in Bhutan, and I found a book that contained pictures of all of the expeditions to the top of Mount Everest. The photographs that captivated me most were by a guy called Alfred Gregory who documented the first successful Everest climb. He took a famous photo of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the South Eastern ridge in 1953. I came back to Australia and somebody said that they had bought a photograph by Alfred Gregory and I thought, ‘That’s a bit weird’. Then when a friend in London mentioned him, I thought, ‘It’s ridiculous that this guy’s name keeps cropping up so much!’ It turns out that Alfred Gregory was British by birth, but he ended up moving to Melbourne. So I went and visited him in Dandenong, where he lived, and we struck up a friendship. Sadly, he died last year. SB: So with your commercial work, have you ever had a client request that you shoot only on film? EC: Yeah, most recently. Twelve months ago. They said, ‘How do you want to shoot this?’, and I said, ‘This is just perfect for the Max Dupain style of photography’. And it’s purely because of the technical restrictions of the film that narrow and sharpen the contrast. SB: A lot of your photographs have come from film and slide film. Do you have a preference for film over digital? EC: Which do I prefer? Ah, film by far. My ideal situation is the darkroom. You may not have a computer in there, but you will end up with far better results. You can spend the day shooting and come back to process and develop the film to the best you can possibly get. Hopefully the next generation of photographers realise that ‘Oh my god, those photographs taken in the ’50s and ’60s are so incredible. I want that look. How do I do it?’ And the way you do it is by going into the darkroom. SB: It’s interesting that this use of film ultimately comes back to the pursuit of authenticity. If you had shot your photo of Mount Everest in digital, would it have been different? EC: Yes. Because in digital you see everything going on down there in dark shadow. And I don’t know if it’s necessarily important in that photograph. I’d rather see, visually I’d rather not see the detail of what is down there. In digital you have ability to recall every bit of information. But shooting in film gives the photograph curvature, and an authentic ‘look’. SB: We think of Driza-Bone clothes as authentic, rugged, and real—would you say that those kinds of things are also what you look for in your photography? EC: Entirely. SB: Like Driza-Bone, I think you appreciate something that lasts; for example, film endures, where digital keeps evolving quicker than we can keep up with. EC: I think where digital is useful is in achieving that heritage look within the digital frame—and I think that’s what you guys are doing too. SB: Definitely. We’re in the modern world. EC: Because I don’t want to go and walk around with a ’50s Driza-Bone coat! Like you guys, I’d rather produce something modern, but with a rugged and heritage feel.