Word: outbackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal the bottom of sheep-station ponds and thereby save the precious water in the outback from leaking away. Australia's world-beating teenage swimmers, John and Ilsa Konrads, were born in Latvia...
Lommel found the ancient pictures in the hills surrounding a vast ranch far out in the bush. In the outback country he found a shifting population of aborigines. The old people led him along circuitous trails to their usual Wondjina pictures, and "touched" them for him (Lommel swears the rain came each time). But forging farther afield himself, Lommel came to other rock drawings the natives themselves had never seen, and knew nothing about...
...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...