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Australian slang - Australia's Culture Portal

Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...

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Aussie Talk : the MacQuarie Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms   (website Beulah Park Books )

Navigation Bank Details Home Shopping Cart Checkout Browse By Category Offline Search Service About Us Contact Us Store Policies Privacy Policy Login Title: Aussie Talk : the MacQuarie Dictionary of Australian ColloquialismsBinding: HardbackPublisher: Mc...

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage - Cambridge University Press   (website Cambridge University Press )

They come into English with loanwords from other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Latin and Greek, and may represent either singular or plural. Removing stops from all abbreviations would (it s sometimes said) lead to confusion between lower case a...

Winsor, Reginald (1891 - 1963) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

WINSOR, REGINALD (1891-1963), railway commissioner, was born on 5 July 1891 at Singleton, New South Wales, fourth child of native-born parents Richard Winsor, fireman, and his wife Mary, n. In 1948 Frederick Garside replaced Hartigan; Winsor was promoted ...

Baker, Sidney John (1912 - 1976) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

BAKER, SIDNEY JOHN (1912-1976), philologist, was born on 17 October 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand, son of English-born parents Sidney George Baker, journalist, and his wife Lillian Selby, n. He had received a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship and pu...

ACT Libraries - ANF   (website Australian Capital Territory Library Service )

Titles are hyperlinked to the ACT Public Library online catalogue. Oxford companion to Australian literature Wilde W H William Henry Adult Non-Fiction William Shakespeare The tempest Clark Sandra 1941 Adult Non-Fiction dictionary of Australian colloquial...

ACT Libraries - ANF   (website Australian Capital Territory Library Service )

Titles are hyperlinked to the ACT Public Library online catalogue. Oxford companion to Australian literature Wilde W H William Henry Adult Non-Fiction William Shakespeare The tempest Clark Sandra 1941 Adult Non-Fiction dictionary of Australian colloquial...

Guide to Indigenous Music:: State Library of Western Australia: :: Print version   (website State Library of Western Australia )

The Indigenous people of our state make their own vibrant musical statement. The State Library has a comprehensive heritage collection of recorded Indigenous music from across the state covering both contemporary and traditional styles. Material held al...

Guide to Indigenous Music:: State Library of Western Australia: :: Print version   (website State Library of Western Australia )

The Indigenous people of our state make their own vibrant musical statement. The State Library has a comprehensive heritage collection of recorded Indigenous music from across the state covering both contemporary and traditional styles. Material held al...

Corporate - 23/06/2000: Media Conference - with ABC MD, Jonathan Shier   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Question: Mr Shier, for more than a decade the ABC has been facing staff cuts, funding cuts and you said that the ABC is failing to reach the audience that it should. Question: Is that a marketing issue, that the ABC doesn't sell itself properly, that we...

Guide to Indigenous Music: State Library of Western Australia   (website State Library of Western Australia )

Find a selection of links to Indigenous music interest groups and internet resources. The State Library has a comprehensive heritage collection of recorded Indigenous music from across the state covering both contemporary and traditional styles. Material...

Guide to Indigenous Music: State Library of Western Australia   (website State Library of Western Australia )

The State Library has a comprehensive heritage collection of recorded Indigenous music from across the state covering both contemporary and traditional styles. The reference collection of books, journals and on-line databases covers the ethno-musicology ...

Curriculum Links for 'Right or Wrong?'   (website Hazel Edwards Author )

by Hazel Edwards & Goldie Alexander Phoenix Education ISBN 1- 876580- 39- 9 All of these plays encourage Thinking Processes which are part of interdisciplinary learning and thereís considerable cross- over into Information and Communications Technology i...

Australian slang - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...

Index for 2008: Nos 298-307   (website Australian Book Review )

5, Random House, 300/63, Stephanie Owen Reeder>GRENVILLE, Kate, The Lieutenant, Text, 305/24, James Bradley>GREY, Jeffrey, A Military History of Australia, Third Edition, CUP, 302/9, Peter Edwards>GRIMWADE, Steve & Lisa Greenaway (eds), Going Down Swingin...

Index for 2008: Nos 298-307   (website Australian Book Review )

5, Random House, 300/63, Stephanie Owen Reeder>GRENVILLE, Kate, The Lieutenant, Text, 305/24, James Bradley>GREY, Jeffrey, A Military History of Australia, Third Edition, CUP, 302/9, Peter Edwards>GRIMWADE, Steve & Lisa Greenaway (eds), Going Down Swingin...

Index for 2008: Nos 298-307   (website Australian Book Review )

5, Random House, 300/63, Stephanie Owen Reeder>GRENVILLE, Kate, The Lieutenant, Text, 305/24, James Bradley>GREY, Jeffrey, A Military History of Australia, Third Edition, CUP, 302/9, Peter Edwards>GRIMWADE, Steve & Lisa Greenaway (eds), Going Down Swingin...

Featured Favourites - More - Best loved Australian play | AustralianPlays.org   (website AustralianPlays.org )

My favourite Australian play is Don's Party. Since my memory works to erase the emotional impact of any piece of theatre after about 3 years, I’d love to say my favourite is a classic Australian Play... While awed by his novels, I found Patrick Wh...

Simply Australia - The Spent Dollar   (website Simply Australia )

The Coin Book - Australain History Through Coins> by Michael Rabbitt, Hake & Ironmonger, 1993. The day following an evening's decimal currency workshop, a garage attendant that I knew was asked by a customer to put a dollar's worth of petrol in his car. ...

Simply Australia - Kokoda: Track or Trail   (website Simply Australia )

Claimed to be ,Äútaken from the notes of a soldier,Äù, the article mentions the word track on at least thirteen occasions, and the plural, tracks, twice. BRIAN MURRAY, President of the New Guinea Survey Section (8th Field Survey Section AIF) believes tha...

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