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  • Strine Dictionary

    A ABC (Aunty) ace akker ankle biter apples abo agro alice ankle biter II apples, she’ll be arvo B bag belt up big smoke boardies brekkie II banana bender belt up II big smoke II bogan brick shithouse barrack belt up III bingle bogan band brizzie barbie berko bingle II bogan bangles budgie smugglers barbie II bewdy bloke bogan bits bung barbie III bikkie bloody oath bogan dust bung on an act barney bikkie (again) blower bogan jacuzzi black stump bathers bikkie II blowie bogan missile back of Bourke battler bikie blue booze bus bottom of the harbour beauty biggy bluey brekkie bellambi handbag bombora / bommie buckley’s baggy green…

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    Kangaroo Cooking…Roo Meat: It’s Tasty if Ya Cook It!

    Japanese have been legally eating kangaroo for longer than most Australians. Kangaroo meat was imported to Japan and being served in Tokyo restaurants from 1988, five years before meat from the national symbol was legalized for consumption by Australians in all states other than South Australia, where kangaroo could be eaten legally from 1980. (Indigenous Australians had continued eating kangaroo, a traditional food, regardless of the ban.) Despite the head start, kangaroo meat never really kicked on in Japan, despite its reputation for being a healthy, high-protein, low-fat alternative to beef or pork. RooMeat was promoted in Japan as being a preferred choice of athletes and models, but the “stars”…

  • Piffle/ナンセンスなこと

    Piffle Australian English Nonsense, usually used in a dismissive manner. It can also be used to refer to a trifling matter, or something of little consequence or worth. 日本語 １）ナンセンスなこと。普段、人を否定する時に言い返す言葉として使われている。 ２）妙なこと。どうたことない。あまり関係ないことを示す。 Plain English 1) A dismissive statement along the lines of “No way!” 2) A meager, trifling matter. Strine Dictionary

  • The Lucky Country

    Australia is often referred to as “the lucky country,” which most people use favorably, but was actually a derogatory term coined by journalist Donald Horne in his book of the same name, and with April 25 a landmark date in Aussie history now called ANZAC Day, it got me thinking about fortune and the role it plays in lives. Australia had the misfortune to fight its first day of war as an independent, federated country on April 25, 1915, and thousands of young men were brutally mowed down in meaningless slaughter in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of World War I (having been escorted to the battlefield by our erstwhile Japanese…

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    豪キャブラリー： Neddies

    Neddiesは、競馬のことだ。あまり知られていないが日本は世界の競馬大国である。世界中の100件のＧ１レース中46件が日本で行っている。 　しかし、オーストラリアでも競馬が栄えているし、毎年11月の第二火曜日がメルボルンカップデーであり、ビクトリア州では以前祭日だった（今は違う）し、レースが始まる午後2時40分になるとオーストラリア全国が止まると言われている。