For we have here a beautiful land that none could e’er knock down, The brightest jewel that ever was known in dear old George's crown; The brightest … - Randolph Bedford

Ah!' said Wardley, 'the times are different from my young days. We were independent then; a fair day's work for a fair day's pay; that's all we asked. Here are young fellows today without any sense of independence. My two sons have taken the Old Age Pension.'
'How old are they, Bill?'
'One's seventy-four and the other seventy-two! No pride.

Australia has a word for the s, a word that should be used the world over to describe a killjoy, and that word is ''.

The womenfolk of early immigrants to Queensland brought cactus in a pot, because it had a ‘pretty flower’, and the ‘prickly pear’ escaped from the pot and destroyed twenty million acres of the finest land in the State; until the cactoblastis was introduced, and destroyed the pear. An old lady—craving her old-world home—brought sweet briar to South Australia; and it accounted for a few million acres in its turn. A fool pastoralist, whose most coherent phrase was ‘Tally-ho!’ or ‘Yoicks!’ introduced the fox, which has almost wiped out the lyre bird; and another fool introduced the starling. Other pests introduced were Freetraders, sectarianism, water hyacinth and rabbits.