Australian 
Aus·tral·ian (ô strāl′ē ən, -strāl′yən)
adjective
- of Australia or its people
- designating or of the biogeographic realm that includes Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea
noun
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Grannie remarked that I might have the spirit of an Australian but I had by no means the manners of a lady.
I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian I shall always come back to rest in the shadow of the blue mountains, in the heart of this vast, deserted continent which gave me birth.
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