Green’s Dictionary of Slang

murky n.

[the darkness of skin]

(Aus.) an Aborigine.

[[Aus]Truth (Sydney) 11 Aug. 3/5: ‘An Aboriginal Idyll’ / A most pathetic story, / About a nigger gory, / A murky aboriginal / Whose actions were vertiginal].
[Aus]Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.
[Aus]N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 236/1: murky – an abo.