Dog On The Tuckerbox Story
Yet as with waltzing matilda its origins lie firmly in the australian bush and the early pioneers who in this case forged west and south from the colonial headquarters in sydney following the explorers searching for the source of the murrumbidgee river.
Dog on the tuckerbox story. The cherished dog on the tuckerbox statue near gundagai in the new south wales riverina has been knocked from its sandstone pedestal in an attack the local mayor has called a senseless bit of vandalism. The dog on the tuckerbox is an australian historical monument and tourist attraction located at snake gully approximately five miles eight kilometres from gundagai new south wales as described in the song of the same name. The dog section of the monument was cast in bronze by oliver s foundry sydney and its base scu. Like much of australia s early folklore the origins of the dog on the tuckerbox are clouded in mystery uncertainty and controversy.
The dog on the tuckerbox is an australian historical monument and tourist attraction located at snake gully five miles 8 km from gundagai new south wales. It is generally conceded however that the story of the dog on the tuckerbox originated as a bullocky complaining about his dog that shat in his tuckerbox that it was or became a song and that it was passed by word of mouth.