The Dig Tree is a gnarled coolibah that stands in the burnt heart of the outback, beside the warm, green water of Cooper's Creek. |
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Fewer and fewer people living in this country feel any cultural connection with jolly swagmen, billabongs and coolibah trees. |
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So if I wanted to clear my 450 hectares of coolibah now, what do I need to do? |
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And here, in 1875, after floods had forced them to spend days perched in an old coolibah, Frank and his sons had taken up a cattle and horse-breeding station. |
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By then our injured man lay crying and dying under a coolibah tree. |
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I said to one of the mob under the coolibah tree, an old man with a face which looked as if it had absorbed all the sadness in his life. |
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What sort of tree is a coolibah, which is mentioned in the song Waltzing Matilda? |
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Sites with clusters of deep pits are also fairly common in this region, but they differ from those to the east, such as at Coolibah. |
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Coolibah reappears but Charles O'Brien believes she will revel in the ground. |
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