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WHAT'S IN A NAME?

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It is a well-established Australian cultural tradition to refer to others by nicknames or joke names. But this tradition did not begin with British colonisation; it was well established long before that. In traditional Aboriginal culture, each different tribal group had a nickname for each of their neighbours and some of these names have survived into the present day.

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