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08 January

1810 - The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen's Land, begins publication.

1878 - The telephone is used for the first time in Australia in Melbourne.

Australian slang

banana bender a person from QLD
swagman tramp, bum, hobo
cat burying shit, as busy as a busy
BA bloody awful
trough lolly round solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal
boob tube strapless, shapeless bra
dingo Australian wild dog
Abo derogatory appellative for Aboriginal
zonked exhausted

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