Under the Coolibah Tree

Under the Coolibah Tree is a 1955 Australian musical by Dick Diamond. It was Diamond's follow up to his successful musical Reedy River and like that used bush folk songs.
It debuted in Brisbane in 1955 and had a season at the New Theatre in Sydney. The musical was also performed at the Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival.

Premise

In the 1880s, a paddle steamer has run aground on the Darling River while carrying a cargo of beer to Bourke. Local shearers become involved, as does a free settler and his Aboriginal friends, the ship's captain.