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Some of the stories and events that may have inspired the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda" are below.
In Queensland, in 1891, the Great Shearers' Strike brought the colony close to civil war and was broken only after the Premier of Queensland, Samuel Griffith, called in the military. In July and August 1894, as the shearing season approached, the strike broke out again in protest at a wage and contract agreement proposed by the 'squatters'. During July and August, seven shearing sheds in central Queensland were burned by striking union shearers before shearing could begin with 'scab' labour. Early on the morning of 2 September, a group of striking union shearers, firing rifles and pistols, set fire to the shearing shed at Dagworth. The fire killed over a hundred sheep.