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Fighting talk

THE AUSTRALIAN $10 note has on it the portrait of Banjo Paterson, son of a Lanarkshire family, who wrote Waltzing Matilda.

An Ozzie barman tells us a Scottish visitor peered at the note when he got one in his change in Sydney, and declared: "Banjo Paterson? I don't know who he is, but in a Glasgow bar that's an instruction to start a fight."

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