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[Bob Pacey]

Good on ya

POETS David Campbell and Greg North took out most of the Golden Gumleaf honours at this year’s Australian Bush Laureate Awards.

David, from Beaumaris in Victoria, and Greg, from the NSW Blue Mountains, each won two of the six judged awards presented on Tuesday.


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David won the Book of the Year with his publication Riders On The Wind, and Published Poem of the Year for The White Man’s Way.

Greg, famous for his comedy poems, won the much-soughtafter Album of the Year with his release Frackin’ Fricker. The title track from the album also won Single Recorded Performance of the Year.

One of Australia’s leading country songwriters and one of the leading country songwriting teams took out the song lyric categories.

Norma O’Hara Murphy, of Bony Mountain, Queensland, won Traditional Song Lyric of the Year with her song Gilbert, O’Meally and Hall.

The Contemporary Song Lyric of the Year category was won by the hugely successful songwriting team of Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter and Colin Buchanan with the song recorded by Lee, Flying With the King.


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The song, a tribute to the late Slim Dusty, is also a finalist for the Heritage Song of The Year Golden Guitar on Saturday night.

A seventh award, the Judith Hosier Heritage Award (named in honour of the awards’ founder), was presented to a long-time supporter and promoter of Australian bush verse, Trisha Anderson from Queensland.






Bob

[warooa]

Congratulations to David Very deserved awards.

Cheers, Marty

ps. selling advertising space in your posts now Bob?

[Bob Pacey]

What ca got and how much Marty




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[Bob Pacey]

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[keats]

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