Swagman

Swagman is a fictional man who is mentioned in the traditional Australian ballad, "Waltzing Matilda". His name means that he has materials inside the sack. The lyrics of the ballad reflects about how he drowned when he refuses to give a kidnapped sheep to a colonel.

Description
After the man was banished from town, he is all alone in the billabong. This makes him an outcast. He first saw a sheep and he kidnapped it with a sack. An angry colonel convinces him to give it to him, but the man refuses. Without using his thinking cap, he decides to jump into the watering hole into the depth. The man drowned and he became a ghost.

1985 Short Film
In the clay-animated short, the man gets banished from town and mistreated by a koala (dressed as a colonel). The man tricked him by pretending to be a ghost and goes into the billabong. Inside the billabong, he finds a sheep and thinks it is roast lamb in order to survive. The man kidnaps it and is convinced by the colonel to give it to him. He sends his troops to get the sheep, but the man jumps into the watering hole and becomes a ghost. This made all the animals sad, including the colonel and his troops.