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Restoring Aboriginal place names

Restoring Aboriginal place names
 - Australia has its share of rude and ridiculous place names; lists of them proliferate on the Internet for the titillation of tourists and bored people. But in his wonderful history and memoir The Bush, the sage Don Watson cuts through the chortles to show that when you think about it, the laughs we get from names as they flash by on long car trips are pretty empty.

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