10-Dec-2020 Theme: 'Coolabah'

(1) What is the origin of the name ‘coolabah’.

Answer: Aboriginal name for tree (‘gulabaa’ in Yuwaalaraay language).

(2) While visiting Dagworth Station in 1895, Banjo Paterson wrote a lyric about a swagman who camped under a coolabah tree. There is now a Waltzing Matilda Centre museum in the nearest town. Where is it?

Answer: Winton, Queensland.

(3) What colour is the Eucalyptus coolabah flower?

Answer: Creamy white.

(4) What Coolabah tree on the bank of Coopers Creek, near Nappa Merrie homestead, was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 2003?

Answer: The Dig Tree (one of two trees emblazoned by William Brahe marking where stores had been buried for the missing Burke and Wills expedition).

(5) Fill in the missing word from this 1970s cask wine advertising jingle: “Where do you … your Coolabah?”

Answer: Hide.

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