Here are some notes which may deepen your appreciation of this oeuvre: ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR! - the stirring and delightful Australian National Anthem. BARBIE - this does not refer to the doll, but is an abbreviation for 'barbeque', upon which Australia's national dish, the giant raw prawn, is cooked until rubbery and tasteless. BOGAN - an individual of poor tastes and bad dress sense, perhaps the Oz equivalent of the US "trailer trash" or the UK "working class yobbo" (aka Brexit supporter). BONZA (sometimes spelled Bonzer) - good, excellent, first class, super. CATTLE CLASS - Qantas' Economy Class where the plebs sit with their knees around their necks, and where 300 people have to share two toilets and one bar of soap; traditionally Qantas Economy Class passengers are insulted by the cabin staff at every opportunity. DIRTY RED - a delicious Australian wine of the very highest lethal quality with a kick like a mad kangaroo, also known as 'Chateau Legaupna', guaranteed to lower the defences of even the most virginal of sheilahs. DUNNY - a toilet hut situated picturesquely in a house's back garden in areas with no mains sewage - often covered with sweet-smelling sub-tropical flowers to hide the odours within in the weeks before the dunnymen come to collect its noisome contents. FAG - this has nothing to do with the obnoxious and insulting U.S. term 'faggot' - a fag is a cigarette in Australia - thus 'fag-stained dentures' means 'false teeth stained by tobacco smoke', a traditional Australian method of making oneself attractive to the opposite sex. FIVE MILE CLUB - membership of this elite club is restricted to those who have copulated in a commercial airliner at 26,500 feet or more above ground; it is strictly limited to heterosexuals as the club rules specify 'no pooftahs'; since Australian law does not recognise gay females, their status re entry is sub judice at the moment. KILGOORLIE - an old gold-mining town famed for its vibrant Red Light District. OZ - nothing to do with the bloody wizard thereof; Oz = Australia. POMS - an abbreviated form of 'Pommies', an affectionate term of respect which Australians use to refer to English people, often expanded to 'Pommy Bastards' when the deepest respect is implied. QANTAS - Australia's national airline, renowned for the butchness of its female cabin staff and the startling effeminacy of many of its male stewards; unusually for a commercial airline and thanks to union pressure, Qantas stewardesses are not obliged to retire when their looks have faded, thus some are ancient dogs of the most unattractive kind; all Qantas staff are trained to be intolerably rude to passengers in Cattle Class (q.v.), especially New Zealanders and also the famed Yellow Peril. QUOKKA - the Quokka (Setonix brachyurus), is a small marsupial about the size of a large cat - like other animals in the macropod family such as kangaroos and wallabies, it is herbivorous; since it is quite small it is not dangerous to humans; I am unaware if it is eaten by Australians, but it would fit easily onto a barbie (q.v.). RAYLENE - a particularly beautiful (although rare) Australian girl's name; sometimes spelled 'Rayleen'. RUPERT MURDOCH - an aged and immensely rich Australian media tycoon famed for his rightwing views and megalomaniac ruthlessness in business; his company owns The Sun and Times newspapers in the UK, Fox News in the USA, Sky TV worldwide and countless dozens of other media; there is no link between his wealth and power and the fact that his wife is young enough to be his grand-daughter. TAKE ME BACK TO BLIGHTY! - a WW1 soldier's song - Blighty refers to England - sadly millions of the soldiers who sang it never went back, having being slaughtered on the Western Front instead. THE BLACK STUMP - a mythical tree to be found on the outskirts of most Australian cities, delineating where the Outback begins. UTE - short for 'Utility truck' - a small truck or lorry with an open back, suitable for transporting dead kangaroos after dazzling them with your headlights on a country road and then running them down; roo flesh is much prized for mincing and making into 'floaters', delicious meat pies served with floury and oh so appetising brown gravy which are sold from converted campervans to discerning Australian gourmets, and which go down a treat on a hot summer's day. . Love from Edna .