Word: jackaroo
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...
...Jackaroo, n.: boundary rider, station hand, sheep drover...
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