Mooching around the electronic archives of the Australian Newspapers, I
found the following, from a review of Sidney Baker's _The Australian
Language_:
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954), Saturday 23 June 1945, page 11
Alongside Slang and Twang Emerges "Standard Australian"
"Yet here, perhaps, is one of the most fruitful sources of indigenous
writing. No one who has seen in the Mitchell Library the broadsheet verse
and prose circulated among the old Sydney "pushes" will doubt the ability of
the larrikin to express himself in vigorous new ways."
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Right, there you are then, all I have to do is pop down the road and have a
look in the Mitchell Library. Shame it's probably the one in Melborne
rather than Glasgow.
:-((((
Anyone have any suggestions, other than the obvious one of climbing into a
plane and flying 6,000 miles on the off-chance?
Raddled Robin
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