“Something with a cow in it”: Dairying in Victoria’s Western District celebrated in a 1907 comic opera.
In 1914, when playwright Louis Esson exhorted his fellow playwrights to write “authentic” Australian plays, he used the throwaway line “something with a cow in it” …
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