‘The Absent Minded Beggar’ is a patriotic poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1899 in order to raise money for soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War.

Newsreader Terry Willesee treats Nine News viewers to a Christmas poem highlighting Perth's best lights from Marangaroo, Morley and Armadale.

Jack Thompson, who played Clancy in the 1982 movie adaptation, reads Banjo Paterson's 'The Man from Snowy River' at the Hotel Gearin in Katoomba, NSW.