Itinerant workers, known as swagmen, tramped the Australian bush looking for work as farm hands, this was known as being "on the wallaby track". Here is painting by the iconic Australian artist of the Heidelberg school, Frederick McCubbin, depicting a swagman on the wallaby track.

Life was hard for these men and doubly so for the swagman in the picture because he has a wife and child to care for as well.

McCubbins wife, Annie, and his son, John, were the models for the picture.