According to the Internet source given below, Slim Dusty, AO MBE (David Gordon Kirkpatrick) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer born in Nulla Nulla Creek near Kempsey, New South Wales .
A national treasure, he recorded songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 international hit song namely
The Pub With No Beer by Gordon Parsons.
He sang
Waltzing Matilda in the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
He died in St Ives, New South Wales
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