Saltbush Bill is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.
It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 15 December 1894, the Christmas issue of that publication.
[2] The character is introduced in this poem as a drover of sheep along "the track of the Overland", who stretches "the law of the Great Stock Routes" by allowing his sheep to make use of all the good grass they find.
On the occasion described in the poem, Bill's sheep have spread across a squatter's property.
A Jackaroo arrives and attempts to drive the sheep back into the accepted "space of the half-mile track".