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(Australia, now usually considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal..
2009, Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents, in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’, page 30, They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (blackfeller)’.
You see we were only like ordinary blackfellers. We didn′t know anything.
The whitefellers′ Law said it was a wrong thing to get a blackfeller to leave his district and go elsewhere, so Clancy and his mates were gaoled ...
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Blackfeller means (Australia, now usually considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal..
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2009, Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents, in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’, page 30, They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (blackfeller)’.
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