The City Bushman is a poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 6 August 1892, under the title In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise. It was the fourth work in the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, and others, about the true nature of life in the Australian bush.^[1]

In The City Bushman, Lawson responds to Paterson's poem, In Defence of the Bush, quoting a number of phrases, and criticising each in turn.^[2][3]

After its initial publication in The Bulletin on 9 July 1892, the poem was then included in the following collections and anthologies:

• In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses, 1896
• Humorous Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1941^[4]
• The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974^[5]
• The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer edited Brian Kiernan, Currey O'Neil, 1982^[6]
• A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984^[7]
• The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse edited by Philip Neilson, Penguin, 1986^[8]

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