Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The People Before: Words from Aboriginal Languages
'No Convict Taint': The Early Days of the Colony
'The Copper Kingdom': The Cornish and the Copper Mines
'A Paradise of Dissent': The German Lutheran Influence
Wealth from the Land: Wheat, Wool, and Wine
The Outback: Opals, Camels, and Woomera
The 'Lifestyle State': The Festival, Grange, and Stobie Poles
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dorothy Jauncey has worked at the Australian National Dictorionary Centre as a researcher and editor from 1999 to 2008, and tutored and lectured in Academic English in the Linguistics Department.