Droving in Popular Culture
Much literature has been written about droving, particularly balladic poetry.
An idealised image of the droving life is described in the poem Clancy of the Overflow, and more realistically depicted in the historical film The Overlanders. Hugh Jackman played a drover in the film Australia.
- Henry Lawson
- "The Ballad of the Drover" (poem)
- "Andy's Gone with the Cattle" (poem)
- "The Drover's Wife" (short story)
- Banjo Paterson
- "Clancy of the Overflow" (poem)
- "The Travelling Post Office" (poem)
- Judith Wright - "South of My Days" (poem)
- Kev Carmody - "Droving Woman" (song)
- Adam Lindsay Gordon - "The Sick Stock Rider" (poem)
- Rolf Harris - "Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport!" (folk song)
- Anonymous - "The Overlander" (folk song)
- Anonymous - "Wrap me up in my Stockwhip and Blanket" (folk song)
- Anonymous - "The Three Drovers" (Christmas song)
- Saul Mendelsohn - "Brisbane Ladies" (folk song)
- Hugh McDonald (of Redgum) - "Diamantina Drover" (song)
- Bill "Swampy" Marsh - Great Australian Droving Stories
- Bok, Tricket, & Muir - "Johnny Stewart, Drover" (folk song)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams - Hugh the Drover, opera
- John Williamson - Drover's Boy
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman appeared in the Australian period film Australia, set around a droving trip in the remote Northern Territory. Despite the film's mixed reviews, the acting was praised and the movie was a box office success worldwide.
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