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- ↑ For example, Such Is Life contains possibly the first written incidence of the Australian and New Zealand idiom "ropeable". Chapter One contains the following phrase: "On't ole Martin be ropeable when he sees that fence!"
- ↑ Serle, Geoffrey (1973). From Deserts the Prophets come; the creative spirit in Australia 1788-1972. Melbourne: Heinemann. p. 66. ISBN 0855610298.