Banjo Patterson: his spirit lives on

Australians face the possibility that our Government may persist in trying to censor the most valuable means available to us for obtaining “unfiltered” information.

But it’s not all gloom and doom. There seems to be a cultural revival, based on growing opposition to this abomination.

There have been stories and poems.

Now a lyricist called ‘mudshark’ has adapted Banjo Patterson’s Waltzing Matilda to modern times.

Here are the first couple of verses. The rest is at Beyond the Fringe:

Once a jolly swagman plugged into the internets,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented
“Don’t go deploying your filters on me”.

“Deploying your filters, deploying your filters
Don’t go deploying your filters on me”
And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented,
“Don’t go deploying your filters on me”.