Word: outbacker
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...underwritten a mammoth musical program in the sparsely settled bush areas. The country currently has six ABC symphony orchestras. Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to play in some 80 of the rachitic towns along the coasts and in the Australian outback. In addition, the Broadcasting Commission has sponsored bush tours by such world-famed soloists as Violinist Isaac Stern and Pianist Eugene Istomin...
Starting in 1920 as an aerial taxi service for ranchers deep in Australia's barren, blazing outback, Qantas built up a flying-doctor service, hauled emergency well parts, food and anything else settlers wanted. By the 1930s, Qantas had expanded, flying 14-passenger flying boats on a thrice-weekly service to London. But it was only after World War II, in which Qantas' Catalinas did everything from evacuating 24,000 wounded to dropping supplies to besieged Aussie troops, that the line joined the international big league...
When Smiley gets the oil on how he's been done in, he's that sick about it he just humps the bluey, and for the next two days, while the whole mob goes mullocking about the outback with gully-rakers, the boy don't seem to have a bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course...
...most Australians, "humpty doo" means "all right, everything is O.K." But to the hardy residents of tiny Humpty Doo in Australia's Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas-the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles...
Dams & Markets. Chase and Territory Rice signed a 30-year deal with the Australian government to develop 500,000 acres of the Outback's alluvial plains into a settled and prosperous farming area. Within five years, the company must choose its acreage, within another ten years prepare the land, build a complex of dams, irrigation ditches, etc., and bring in the first crops. After that, it must sell the developed land to settlers, who will farm it while Territory Rice acts as agent for the rice crop, mills and ships it to markets. With only a token...