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Australia's unofficial poet laureate Les Murray farewelled

With native bird calls filling the air and in a library containing his own works, one of Australia's greatest poets, Les Murray, was farewelled in a state memorial service.

Leslie Allan Murray, known as the Bush Bard of Bunyah, died aged 80 in Taree on the NSW mid-north coast on April 29.

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