Adavale Pub Store Post Office - Adavale | Pub / Hotel

In 1893, Banjo Paterson headed north to Dagworth station near Kynuna, Queensland, to cover the Shearer's Strike for his Sydney newspaper and travelled with his fiancée, Sarah Riley. As a journalist, Paterson would have interviewed shearers for their take on their plight and the draconian work conditions experienced over the past two years. His empathy toward them would most likely have been the catalyst for the composition of his famous poem, Waltzing Matilda. Paterson's source of information would likely have travelled North from wool growing stations and conveyed to him by shearers and workers who had witnessed and experienced the poor treatment and working conditions at stations such as Milo, Gumbardo & Emudilla in the the Adavale Shire, centred on the town of Adavale.