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From: yvonne@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU (Yvonne Edwards)
Subject: Re: Words to Waltzing Matilda
Organization: UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:29:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.155709.22553@ils.nwu.edu> pbright@ils.nwu.edu (Paul Brightbill) writes:
>I remember a thread from a few weeks past about the words to Waltzing
>Matilda.  Does anyone have all the words or know where I can get them from?
> 

When I learned this in Primary School I never would have thought that
I would remember it word for word all these years later.
BTW, it is a poem by A.B. Paterson and it is usually sung to a tune
by an unknown Scotsman.

    Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
    Under the shade of a coolibah tree
    And he sang as he watched and waited til his billy boiled
    Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me.
       Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
       Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
    And he sang as he watched and waited til his billy boiled
    Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
    
    Up came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong
    Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
    And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag
    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
       Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
       You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
    And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag
    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
    
    Up came the squatter mounted on his thoroughbred
    Up came the troopers one, two, three
    "Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag
    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me"
       Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
       You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
    Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag
    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me.
    
    Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong
    "You'll never take me alive" said he
    And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong
    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me.
       Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
       You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me
    And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong
    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me.
    
NB  Glossary: jumbuck = sheep   squatter = sheepfarmer  trooper = policeman
              billabong = a truncated bend in a river
    
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From: tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: customs
Date: 24 Dec 92 21:44:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <ggm.725152678@brolga> ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
>tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes:
>
>
>>What about coffee?  Any restrictions?
>
>Yes. Don't bring UNGROUND beans into the country. A weevil can live
>in them even through roasting. Ground is usually fine. Declare it.



Uh huh.  Are there any weight/quantity restrictions, though?





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From: sa@ais.org (Scott Almburg)
Subject: Re: SYDNEY NOW
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:14:28 GMT

I'm not from oz, but recently got back from a 3 week holiday there.

Bondi beach has clumps of greenish seaweed that wash up on the southern
part near the Bondi beach baths.  Alot of the rocks there are covered
with greenish algae.  


Kings cross still has the seedy strip joints , with the hawkers trying
to get you inside.  These are really lame.  The strip bars in Montreal are
1000x better, and "less expensive", i might add.




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From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: Re: customs
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:31:35 GMT

I hesitate to enrage the grand master but I have memories of French and
(ye gads) even German wines which make even $15 Wynns taste bland. Perhaps
said parisian resident was taken for a ride by his local off-licence?

	-George
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                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
Phone: +61 7 365 4079    QLD Australia 4072       |          -Bertold Brecht
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: s8923098@macgraw.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA)
Subject: Re: Macquarie dictionary yay or nay ?
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:46:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.191123.15199@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> HCHA8904593X@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (PERRETT, ANDREW) writes:

|into seperate schools. In much the same way Zzzzz meaning the sound
|someone makes when someone is sleeping to me does not show a bad
|dictionary. Pretty reasonable sort of definition, i remember this word

I agree. A non-native English speaker who encounters Zzzz for the first
time might have trouble figuring out what it means. In her native language
it might bee Sssss or Shhhhh or something else.

In Japanese, the sound that an approaching train makes is Cho Cho..
and in Malay it is Tut Tut..... Now if you are learning Malay, you
would hope/expect the dictionary to help you with this word(?). 

I do no wish to comment on how good the Macquarie is since I am from 
Macquarie myself and some people might question my objectivity.
 


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: s8923098@macgraw.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA)
Subject: Re: Visiting Australia, lots of questions!!
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:23:17 GMT

In article <2549@eram.esi.COM.AU> dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall) writes:
|In article <BzHKGx.D64@ais.org>,
|    sa@ais.org (Scott Almburg) writes:
|
|| ....  a pocketful of australian coins is almost as bad  as a pocket
|| of english coins!  It's not unlikely that you'll have 30 pounds ins
|| change jangling in those pockets...   pound  coins  are small and 
|| heavy....
|
|Plainly you've never seen our $2 coins...
|

They are too small, I hate them.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: suggest any good recent ozzie movies?
From: s342046@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:56:08 GMT

In article <92362.155157U22822@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U22822@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> 
> Could anyone  suggest recent good ozzie made movies?
> 
> Matt

You might try the following...
	Death in Brunswick	(Black Comedy)        
	Strictly Ballroom       (Comedy)
	Romper Stomper		(Drama - and very controversial here now)
	Proof

There are more, just can't think of them right now!


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From: cjp8b@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington)
Subject: Re: customs
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:58:53 GMT

In article <42849@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes:
>In article <ggm.725152678@brolga> ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
>>tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes:

>>>What about coffee?  Any restrictions?
>>
>>Yes. Don't bring UNGROUND beans into the country. A weevil can live
>>in them even through roasting. Ground is usually fine. Declare it.

>Uh huh.  Are there any weight/quantity restrictions, though?

Only in the sense that what you bring in has to be a non-commercial
quantity. There's no explicit limit like the limits on alcohol and
tobacco. If you're bringing it in by the suitcase-load they'll
probably get a bit bothered. Also they may want to inspect it to make
sure you're not using it to conceal other "goodies". Other than that,
if you wanted to bring 5 or 10 pounds of the stuff with you I imagine
the customs inspectors would just shake their heads, mutter something
about crazy Americans under their breath, and wave you on through.
Note that you'll have a much easier time if what you have is still
sealed in the original container, rather than repackaged or with the
seals on the original container having been broken.

	Chris

-- 
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Biochemistry Dept., Box 440             I'm not really a physical biochemist
UVa Health Sciences Ctr,                     but I play one in the lab... 
Charlottesville, Va 22908   (804)924-8210
From: anita@devvax.mincom.oz.au (Anita Graham)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: Visiting Australia, lots of questions!!
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:29:22 GMT
Organization: Mincom

In article <1hh2rrINN7kg@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, mlaufer@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Matthias Laufer) writes:
> <REAL AUSTRALIANS DON'T TIP>
> 
> Could someone please enligten me.
> What are REAL Australians??
> Surely, Anita couldn't have referred to Aborigines, or could she?
Just in case anyone did not catch the reference it is to
REAL MEN DON'T EAT QUICHE.

Now asking what a `real Australian' is is opening up a can of flames, surely.
But I suppose I could have been referring to aborigines. You may read into
my posts and opinions exactly what you like.

I still don't know where Matthias works, so that I can go there and not 
tip him.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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anita@mincom.oz.au
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Subject: Re: Bizarre Request
From: ewartd@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:57:27 GMT

In article <Bz2B4M.H9s@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, blumb@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Blum) writes:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I have a Bizarre Request.
> I need a GIF file of a cane toad.
> 
> A friend of mine here at Purdue University, who is orignally from
> Queensland, and moved here, is having a birthday.
> And for her birthday, we want to decorate her walls with pictures of cane
> toads.

That's easy, _Bufo_marinus_ come from central America and are widely dist-
ributed in Hawaii and the Phillipines.  You should be able to find photos.
Look for the OZ doc "Canetoads".  I'm sure its been run on discovery channel
so it must be obtainable.

Don

> 
> Thanks!
> -Bill Blum
> 
> -- 
> Bill Blum			* "God willing...we shall return."        
> Purdue University		* Gene Cernan, The Moon, Dec 1972(BSEE P.U. 56)
> School of Nuclear Engineering	* Member of the SEDS National Board
> blumb@sage.cc.purdue.edu 	* FIAWOL   Ad Astra Per Ardua!!
From: bennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: A DIARY OF DISGRACE
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:09:54 CST
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

In article <1992Dec21.002643.48412@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, hra2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad) writes:
> 
>         After a year of savage slaughter, mass rapes, ethnic cleansing and
>         undoubted genocide, the world has responded with all the right words.
>         But the question remains, What will the world do?

Yeah, lotsa words.  Can't help wondering what the situation would be if Bosnia 
etc were oil exporters.

Regards,

John Bennett                                   bennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
From: rtp@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: Visiting Australia, questions.
Date: 24 Dec 92 12:50:53 GMT

I drove from Brisbane to Cairns then to Daintree and return.  I suggest
driving.  Stop in a bar, visit a park, walk around the motel.  If you have
the time drive and see the country.  I've been to reefs in Florida, the
Caribbean and  Hawaii, the Great Barrier is about the same except for
the giant clams.  Visit the York pennisula and interior.  Now that's
different.  Richard Poole
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
Subject: Customs (a quick question!)
Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:45:59 GMT

	amusing side-note to getting through/info about Customs..

	I wanted to know if a friend of mine with an EAST German passport
	would have any problems with Customs (I didn't think so, but I
	wanted to check) We'd gone all over Europe with it just a few months
	ago and it'd be a giggle to land here and... :-}

	Customs (Sydney) was engaged from 9:00am 'till 10:15.. I gave up..(!)

	I rang Immigration..
	the royal run-around, and eventually a girl who stated that she
	thought it would *probably* be okay.. (I'm glad they're sure of these
	things!)

	Sooo..
	I rang the German Embassy (I mean.. they MUST know? Yeah?)
	uh uh.. transfer back-and-forth a few times..
	I'm sorry, ring back, the people you need to speak to are
	unavailable.. 
	ring back an hour later..
	another woman, tells me she *thinks* it'd *probably* be ok...
	(though the person who probably knows isn't in the office right now...)

	SHEESH!!!  I guess I should've just driven into the airport and
	grabbed one of the Customs people on the counter! Obviously THEY
	are the only people in Australia who know the rules!

	urm..  well, probably... :-}

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From: bobm@agsm.unsw.oz.au (Robert Marks)
Subject: Oznews -- thanks, Brad.
Originator: bobm@mummy.agsm.unsw.OZ.AU
Organization: The Australian Graduate School of Management
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:17:58 GMT


Dear Brad, Reading your weekly Aus News summary has been a
delight for me and my wife who are currently visiting a small
branch of Texas A&M University.  I immediately resend the news
to another Australian colleague currently in Sault Ste Marie,
Canada.  I also distribute a copy to an expatriate Queenslander
living in this part of Texas.  We all appreciate the time that
putting together the news bulletin must take.  May we simply say
thank you very much and best wishes for the
Christmas Season.  Mike Hutchinson (CRES,ANU / Texas A&M)

Posted for: hutch@brcsun1.tamu.edu (Mike Hutchinson)
By: bobm@agsm.unsw.oz.au / fmarks@gsb-peso.stanford.edu

and all the best for 1993.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
Subject: Re: Address of University
Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:15:01 GMT

In article <C05Ktz.K8L@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umfu0009@ccu.umanitoba.ca (J. M. K. Fu) writes:

>    I am looking for my post-graduate study in Syndey. Please mail me
> the address of University of New South Wales if any of you guys know.
> Thanks. My email is umfu0009@ccu.umanitoba.ca

	<department you want to contact>
	The University of New South Wales
	PO Box 1
	Kensington, NSW 2033

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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Subject: Re: Bullocks/bollocks
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:17:19 GMT

justin@muppet.bt.co.uk writes:
>bollocks is the Australian slang word of testicles.  I think it is used
>in a few other countries too.

I always thought it was a British expression (bollocks as slang for
testicles). We say "balls". Remember the Sex Pistol's debut album...
Never Mind the Bollocks.

-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
From: tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: customs
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:44:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Dec22.225620.22957@g2syd.genasys.com.au> davew@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Dave White) writes:
>In article <ggm.724893634@brolga> ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
>>ia@trinidad.inria.fr (Isabelle Attali) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>	I will visit australia soon and I would like to know if
>>>I can bring goods such as wine and french pate's
>
>You can only get a litre of booze (wine included) into Australia before
>you are charged large amounts of import duties.


What about coffee?  Any restrictions?





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"Two men say they're jesus, one of them must be wrong," M. Knopfler
From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: frog in montreal
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:30:15 GMT
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
X-Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?"
X-Witty-Saying: "Mobius strip - see other side for instructions"

In article <18DEC199200141394@erich.triumf.ca>,
    ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid) writes:

| 	Yes, but have you looked up its explanation of "conservation of
| physical quantity".  At least in the very first edition (1981) there's a
| rather amusing typographical error.  Plus ca change...

Ah yes, I went and checked my 1st edition.  Conservation of change, eh?
Come to think of it, the French saying was correct :-)

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Subject: Re: Wollongong University
From: ewartd@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:53:30 GMT
Summary: Serious?

In article <1992Dec15.070251.27234@netcom.com>, vere@netcom.com (Steven Vere) writes:
>    I presently live in California, and have never been to Australia.
> I am considering an offer to become a Lecturer in the Computer Science
> Department at Wollongong University under a four year contract
> appointment.  Does anyone have any information about Wollongong
> University or the Department that would be useful in considering the
> position?  How does it compare with other Australian or US universities?
> -- 

Wollongong is a lovely, thriving, coastal city.  A centre of cultural
diversity and economic interest.  The University is strong in several
areas.  I suggest you ask for video tapes of "What's on in Wollongong".
:-)

The only trouble I can see is how will you ever get away again?

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Cheers

Don
(who doesn't believe in 10-line sigs)
From: david_spitzler@next.com (David Spitzler)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Inexpensive accommodations in Melbourne
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:08:12 GMT
Reply-To: david_spitzler@next.com

I am looking for inexpensive accommodations in Melbourne at the end of  
January.  I want to be close to both Melbourne and the tennis center for  
the Australian Open tennis tourney.

Can anyone make any recommendations?  First and foremost, I'm looking for  
clean and safe.  I am open to shared accomodations (i.e. dormitory-style  
youth hostel) but would prefer a private room with a shared bath, if  
that's feasible given my low budget.

Please respond directly to me, and if anyone needs a summary, I'll be  
happy to repost.

Thanks you.

--
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Manager, Higher Education Marketing
NeXT Computer, Inc.
900 Chesapeake Drive
Redwood City, CA 94063 USA
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From: rabi@agni.larc.nasa.gov (Rabindra.P)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: need info Townsville,Sydney...
Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:03:17 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: agni.larc.nasa.gov

Hi! Netters,

	I will be in Townsville for 2 weeks starting Jan 15 and would like to
know the things to see and do in and around Townsville. What is the
weather like during that time. 

   On my way back I have a two day stop over in Sydney. I would
appreciate any info regarding 
		a) Reasonable place to stay.
 		b) Things to see and do (not do)
      c) Public transport to get around the city.
      d) Any useful tips and suggestions.


  
   " Wish You All A Happy And Healthy NEW YEAR "

Thanks,

Rabindra,

email : rabi@vikranth.larc.nasa.gov
 
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