1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 300: It’s just a perk with nothing to do in between hot-air meetings! Na! Self first, self last, that’s the trouble.at hot air, n.
1977 K. Gilbert Living Black 219: He can go to work same as me, you, and every Tom, Dick and Harry.at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 25: I think it’s totally un-Aboriginal and this is again how we are being got at by whites.at get at, v.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 241: Hoping that there was an old battler, an old shearing cook who’d fill your sugar-bag with tucker.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 80: The teachers’d pick on us, we’d [...] go home and tell our father and he’d go round and bawl them out for being racist bastards.at bawl out, v.1
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 174: She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut.at beaut, adj.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 35: You belt him, stick it into him. [Ibid.] 303: When a kid shits on the doorstep you belt his arse and rub his nose in it.at belt, v.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 62: My brother’s a big head at Canberra but I just turned out a drunk.at big head, n.1
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 165: I knew all the big smoke but still I wanted to go through the law.at big smoke, n.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 144: The mad house where the bloomin’ mental people are, I’ve been there.at blooming, adj.1
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 241: Those bludging little birds. [Ibid.] 250: All they want to do is get their money and go down the town and get drunk or bludge something off somebody.at bludge, v.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 229: If he makes a blue of it, someone else’ll take over.at blue, n.4
1977 K. Gilbert Living Black 62: I wound my old blue bomb up and started to drive across those plains.at bomb, n.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 143: The only Aboriginal is the full-blood Aboriginal, eh? I’m what you call a bastard. A breed. I’m a half-caste.at breed, n.
1977 K. Gilbert Living Black 62: He can be a millionaire or stony broke but they’re all the same ... one drink and they’re back in the gutter.at stone broke, adj.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 224: Anybody with a buck in his pocket he couldn’t care less about.at buck, n.3
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: Managers have buggered all the disciplines, the old laws.at bugger, v.2
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 18: The Woodeward thing is buggering the whole tribal system up to hell.at bugger up, v.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: So you say, ‘Oh, well, bugger it, that’s it,’ you know?at bugger it!, excl.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 35: She’s got this sort of grinning, ‘Yus can all go to buggery’ attitude, you know?at go to buggery! (excl.) under buggery, n.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 219: It’ll hold at least seventy ton of fish. That’s no bulldust; the Fisheries supplied it to ’em.at bulldust, n.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: They can’t just bump you off for nothing anymore, see?at bump (off), v.
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 82: Every holidays we had, we always went back to my grandparents, went bush, digging honey-ants and barley.at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
1977 in K. Gilbert Living Black 128: She busted him up when he was off work.at bust someone up (v.) under bust, v.1