Country Campfire

🇦🇺 Australia’s Digital Campfire
Bush poetry • Country music • Snowy Mountains • Camping • Local legends • Country life
🔥 Pull up a stump.

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The world keeps turning — even when everything feels a little crooked.

Michael Carpenter walked into his studio feeling flat and came out with a bluegrass reminder that creating something good still matters. 🔥🎶

Read and listen:
https://t.co/3DuVpdLBuR

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Would you drink a box of wine forgotten at the back of the fridge all summer? Geoff Bagman’s cheeky poem follows one brave discovery from “best before Thursday” to vino vintage delights.

https://t.co/ZY93WNfFMT

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In 1893, Billy Mateer rode through dangerous Queensland country to carry Henry Somerset’s flood warning towards Brisbane.

Tony Hammill tells the story:

https://t.co/uKI1bJkFYN

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Fifty men served beside Australian soldiers in South Africa—then, this poem says, Australia would not let them come home.

Read Fifty Aborigines by David J Delaney:
https://t.co/YzJzpp3uVW

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Some people can create drama in an empty room.

Faith Williams turns lies, rumours and somebody else’s version of the truth into an alt-country song with real bite. “Home Truths” features Kasey Chambers on backing vocals. 🔥

https://t.co/1n0dtyRBUg

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Three larrikins pick the wrong granny on Fitzroy Street. Peter Pentland’s “Ruffer’s Guts” turns rough bravado into a sharp, darkly comic bush yarn. https://t.co/bS7qzWjU6v

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🇦🇺 A poem for an Australian legend.

Bob Pacey joins Episode 146 of the Bush Poetry Podcast with his tribute to Steve Irwin.

🎧 https://t.co/IOXSIhnCjU

#BushPoetry #SteveIrwin

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One man. One country under occupation. A legacy that still matters.

Narelle Stoll’s “Number 24” honours Norwegian resistance hero Gunnar Sønsteby.

Read it here: https://t.co/lMlKLXjxJb

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You’d need a bloody big noticeboard to keep up with Australia this spring.

A $420,000 bull, swimming emus, giant UGG boots, music, bush poetry, the Pilbara and a huge long weekend ahead.

September’s Campfire Muster:
https://t.co/GBCDYlkK83

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Some poems make you think.

Others make you laugh because you’ve either been there… or know someone who has. 😂

“White Girl Wasted” by Helen Dunn — Episode 145 of the Bush Poetry Podcast.

🎧 https://t.co/M8kysZ6mvg

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A secret hose, three wagons of rum barrels and a club that was never meant to be discovered. David J Delaney shares a warm, mischievous true story from Liverpool’s shunting yards in The Rum Barrel Club. https://t.co/NlVKpYJ4ze

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They spent years playing other people’s songs before finally writing their own.

Charlie’s Attic bring a lifetime of country, folk, rock & roots into their latest single, “Flowers”.

Another good yarn from around the campfire 🔥
https://t.co/2JBdH8S0FP

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20 years ago today, Australia lost Steve Irwin.

A true original whose passion for wildlife and this country was impossible to forget.

Still missed. Still remembered. 🇦🇺

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125 years of history. Fly it high and fly it proud. 🇦🇺

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Today is 125 years since the Australian National Flag was first flown. A new flag for an independent nation. 🇦🇺

On 3 September 1901, Prime Minister Edmund Barton announced the winners of a public design competition held after Federation. There were over 32,000 entries in the competition.

Five people shared first place as joint winners of the 1901 federal flag design competition for the Australian National Flag as their designs were all so similar. Each of them featured the the Union Jack, a Southern Cross, and a six pointed Commonwealth Star. (In 1908, the six pointed star was changed to a seven pointed star.)

The Australian government used those five flags to finalise the design we use today.

That afternoon the flag was raised over the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, and it has flown over this country ever since.

The flag represents the people who founded and built Australia, defended it, and died for it. Yet in modern Australia, we are told we must be ashamed of our flag and that it should be changed. Our heritage can not be erased.

Fly it high, and fly it proud. 🇦🇺🤍
#FightForAustralia #FFA #AustralianFlag

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An AI potato picker, flying spuds and one very unlucky farm. Peter Pentland’s comic bush poem proves the instruction manual matters—especially when “evil mode” is involved. https://t.co/O4bCycJFjK

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Go support Tim, hes a bloody legend & a wealth of knowledge

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For the history loving dad, why not ditch the new socks and undies as a present for Fathers Day and instead get him a ticket to one of my upcoming history tours….

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@bakes47516205 love it!
extract brew im guessing?

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Some bush yarns start with a hero. This one starts with a guzzunder.

Ron Boughton’s “Guzzunder Blunder” is a rough, rowdy tale of backyard grog, a stormy night and one explosive mistake.

https://t.co/UDZg8w8oeK

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More than a century on, Henry Lawson’s words still echo around the campfire. His stories remain part of the Australian voice—and always will.

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On this day in 1922, Australia farewelled Henry Lawson, one of the nation’s most enduring literary voices.

Lawson’s pen captured the grit and poetry of life in Australia.

Today is a fitting moment to pause, reflect and honour the man who gave Australia a language for itself at a time when it was still finding its voice.

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A rooster with too much energy—and a bull with nowhere near enough. 🐓

Geoff Bagman finds the funny side of living the dream on the land in Rise n’ Shine (What a Place to Be.).

https://t.co/dCpVRomV9z

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