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usually breathes through its migration Society which re-
gills but can also rise to the sponsible for bringing 6,000
surface and gulp air into a settlers to Queensland.
lung like-sac. Quod: Prison .

Queensland Maple: An ever- QX: (Military) A prefix in front
green tree, Flindersia bray- of Army Regimental Numbers
leyana, having small flowers for troops who enlisted in
and a cone-like fruit, the tim- Queensland in World War II.
ber of which is widely used
An on-going series of words and phrases no longer for furniture. Rabbee: The call of a Rabbito
as he pushed his cart about
in use or shifted in meaning. Queensland Nut: Macadamia to sell rabbits .
nut .
Queensland gate: A roughly quality, Psettodes erumei, Rabbit: Fur covered “Tin Hares”
built gate made of a dropper found in tropical waters of Queensland sand: Sugar . used as decoys for dogs to
and fencing wire, also known Australia and elsewhere. Queensland Silver Wattle: An chase in Greyhound racing .
by a variety of names often Also known as Indian Halibut. attractive small tree, Acacia
associated with different dis- Queensland Hemp : A perenni- podalyriifolia, with silvery Rabbit: (Navy slang) a parcel
taken ashore. Once it was
tricts, i.e., aka “bogan gate”, al fibrous plant, Sida rhombi- foliage and bright yellow
“bush gate”, “cocky’s gate”, folia, with sharp rounded flowers, often planted as an often a reference to some-
thing being smuggled . In
“five minute gate”, “Gordon seeds, found as a weed in ornamental .
gate”, “he/she gate”, “Kelly arable land; named from its recent times perhaps not
gate”, “L & D gate”, “ma- growth in paddy rice fields; Queensland Trumpeter: An quite the case? The refer-
ence refers to the ease of
chinery gate”, “Mallee gate”, Also known as Jelly leaf and Australian semitropical ma-
“Methodist gate”, “running Paddy lucerne . rine fish (Pomadasys hasta), smuggling small items inside
the body of a dead rabbit.
gate”, and in New Zealand having a well developed long
the “Taranaki gate”. Queensland Kauri: A large ev- spine on the anal fin. aka When someone takes a par-
ergreen tree growing straight Queensland trumpeter. Also cel ashore, the suspicious
(Bogan Gate is also the name and tall to a height of 30–50 known as a “javelin fish”. will say “tuck its ears in”.
of a town in central western m, with smooth, scaly bark.
New South Wales.) Queer the pitch: To frustrate; Rabbit, to run the: To convey
Has valuable softwood tim- to fool. liquor from a public house.
ber tree, Agathis robusta,
found in Queensland. Quick firer: Field Service Post
Card (Army Form A2042) .
The card consisted of a num-
ber of pre-printed sentences
which could be deleted as
appropriate . Nothing, except
Spanish Mackerel the address of the recipient,
Queensland Hitch Queensland Kingfish: (Spanish was to be written on the post
from Ron Edwards Mackerel))A valuable com- card in order to alleviate the
“Traditional Bush Crafts” 1975 mercial fish, Scomberomorus problems of censorship.
Queensland Hitch: A method commerson, of Queensland Rabbito 1903
of tying rails to posts in waters also found through- Rabbito: One who sells rabbits.
fence construction. The wire out the whole east cast of
is doubled in a hairpin style, Australia, north cost and Raddle: To mark a sheep for
then twisted around the tim- west coast, Asia and east Af- identification. Often be-
ber. This provides a simple rica . . cause it was badly shorn.
but very strong means of fas- One Quid Sometimes used to identify
tening . Also called Cobb and Quid: A sovereign; or pound ewes mated.
Co wire hitch, Cockys Hitch, sterling. Originally it was Disclaimer: In this series intol-
or, Booligal Hitch) worth a guinea (£1/1/- or erable and racist speak may
$2.10) but over time it was
Queenslander: One who lives in slightly devalued . In pre- turn up from time to time.
or comes from Queensland. Such words are not nec-
Queensland Lungfish decimal currency Australia essarily the editor’s view.
Queenslander: A train that trav- a quid was £1 which was They are presented merely
elled from Brisbane to Cairns. Queensland Lungfish: A tropi- the basic unit of money and
cal freshwater fish of the it was worth $2 in today’s as facts which sometimes
order Dipnoi, as the Queens- money . show biased attitudes from
land lungfish, that breathes another era.
by means of modified lung- Quinn’s Land: Attributed to an We should look at our histo-
like structures as well as gills. indiscreet comment by the ry as it actually was without
A large , primitive, fresh first Catholic Archbishop of sanitising it to suit our own
Queensland Halibut water fish with a paddle- Brisbane, James Quinn (aka sensibilities. This will hope-
Queensland Halibut: A dusky- shaped tail and limlike fins, O’Quinn). He was the found- fully show up racism and
brown flatfish of fine edible Neoceratodus forsteri, which er of the Queensland Im- other evils to be the abomi-
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