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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: The Hermit in ''A Little Bush Maid'' has one of these.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mrs Walker.
* [[Death Byby Childbirth]]: The implied cause of death for both Norah and Jim's mother, and for Bob and Tommy's mother.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Bob and Tommy attempt to conceal their financial difficulties from the Lintons.
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Tommy's step-mother.
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Wally's dream of his brother Edward in ''Billabong's Daughter'', and Norah's dreams in ''Norah of Billabong'' and ''Bill of Billabong''.
* [[Driven Byby Envy]]: Cecil Linton in ''Mates at Billabong''.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Bill's first name is Percival, which he hates. Similarly, Cecilia Rainham goes by her nickmane "Tommy".
* [[Everybody Smokes]]
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** Tommy and Bob's mother died when Tommy was born, and their father was only too glad to surrender the responsibility of their care to an aunt.
** Rob Flynn is another orphan.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: In the last book, Bob Rainham and Bill Blake are not even mentioned.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: This is the incident in ''Billabong's Daughter'' where Norah and Wally start to become more aware of their feelings for each.
* [[Resentful Guardian]]: Rob Flynn's uncle. Tommy's step-mother.
* Scenery Porn
* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]]: Male characters such as Jim, Wally, and Mr Linton consider it only right to protect their female friends and relatives from harm.
* [[Sympathetic Criminal]]: In ''Billabong's Daughter''.
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Cecilia Rainham is known by her nickname "Tommy" but this trope is subverted here as Tommy is actually a very feminine character.