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== Literature ==
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' features the land of XXXX (aka "Terror Incognita"), which parodies all things Downunderese, including ''[[Mad Max]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert]]'', ''Waltzing Matilda'', Ned Kelly, ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' and the actual country of Australia, although they did expressly leave out cricket. There is a distinct difference between the citizens of Bugarup [Sydney], with their University, Opera House and Gay Pride Galah, and the outback characters, who follow all the stereotypes and tropes on this page and then some.
** Upon asking a magical library for a list of dangerous animals in Fourecks, [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] gets swamped by a tidal wave of books. Then he decides to ask for a list of ''safe'' animals, and a single sheet of paper reading "some of the sheep" flutters down. It is noteworthy that there are no deadly snakes in XXXX. This is because the spiders killed them all.
** It also includes one of the most accurate descriptions of the danger presented by a kangaroo: "I could disembowel you with a kick."
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* The Aussies were among the main participants in the New Guinea campaign-which was a contest over who was the most [[Determinator|Determined]] and who had the most [[We Have Reserves|reserves]] with the Japanese in steep mountains, choked with Jungle, stuffed to the brim with disease and in general a [[Death World]].
 
 
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