AUSTRALIANISM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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AUSTRALIANISM. A word, phrase, pronunciation, idiom, or other usage peculiar to, or particularly common in, Australia. Australianisms include loans from Aboriginal languages, such as
kangaroo,
wombat names of kinds of marsupial, and ‘national treasures’ such as
cobber a companion, friend,
ocker a rough and uncultivated Australian male. See
AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH.
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Politicising Australian cinema.(Australian Cinema after Mabo)(Book review)
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Australian Citizenship.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Melbourne Journal of Politics; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
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The Australian National Placenames survey.
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Australian Jewish leaders blast new Jewish NGO as anti-Zionist
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Belonging: Australians, Place, and Aboriginal Ownership.(Review) (book review)
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AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES AND POST-COLONIALISM
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Australian National University
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Beresford, Bruce
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
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Campion, Jane
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Education: Victoria University, Wellington...Best Director Australian Critics Award...Best Director Australian Film Institute...Best Screenplay Australian Film Institute...Best Screenplay National Society of Film...
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Moorhouse, Frank
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Education: The University of Queensland, 1959...in-residence, University of Melbourne and other Australian universities; travelled in Europe...Story prize, 1970; National Book Council Banjo...Classics. St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press...Moorhouse entered Australian ...
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Malouf, David
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...School, 1947-50; University of Queensland, Brisbane...1968-77. Awards: Australian Literature Society...Other New Currents in Australian Writing , with Katharine...Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. Sydney...Lucia; Australian National University Library...
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