A bronze statue of Lawson accompanied by a swagman, a dog and a fencepost (reflecting his writing) stands in The Domain, Sydney.[29] The Henry Lawson Memorial committee raised money through public donation to commission the statue by sculptor George Washington Lambert in 1927. The work was unveiled on 28 July 1931 by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game.[30]
In 1949 Lawson was the subject of an Australian postage stamp.
Lawson's "The Drover's Wife" short story was featured on a 1991 $1.20 stamp,[31] and a 2017 $1.00 stamp,[32] both from Australia Post.
In 2017 Lawson was again featured on two Australian postage stamps, one featuring Mitchell: A Character Sketch and the other The Drover's Wife and family, including dog, pitted against the snake.[33]
He was featured on the first (paper) Australian ten-dollar note issued in 1966 when decimal currency was first introduced into Australia. Lawson was pictured against scenes from the town of Gulgong in NSW.[34] This note was replaced by a polymer note in 1993; the polymer series had different people featured on the notes.
Lawson's treatment (or lack thereof) of Aboriginal Australians in his work has been criticised and debated.[35][36][37] Author Ryan Butta writes that there are some "glaring omissions" in Lawson's writings about Bourke, in particular the Afghan cameleers who were there at the time, and being written about in local newspapers, and who were responsible for opening up the interior of the continent.[38]
In 2024, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relationship between Australia and Indonesia, Indonesian composer Ananda Sukarlan was commissioned to set one of his poems to music, and Sukarlan chose "On the Night Train". It was premiered by the soprano Mariska Setiawan and the strings of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
