Featuring 3x Medallions & 70c Stamps
Issue date 13 May 2014
Limited to 3,500
 
First published in 1890, “The Man from Snowy River” tells the tale of horsemen pursuing an escaped prizewinning colt in mountainous country. Written
just prior to Federation, this ballad depicted something of an archetypal figure for a nation looking to forge a sense of itself: youthful, courageous and risk-taking.
“Waltzing Matilda” is probably the most famous of all Australian ballads, considered by some an unofficial national anthem. Paterson wrote it in 1895, when staying with friends at Dagworth station, Queensland. 

“Mulga Bill’s Bicycle” strikes a humorous chord. Published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1896, it was written at the height of the 19th-century bicycling craze.