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Australians and understood
The Dreaming is a common term within the animist creation narrative of indigenous Australians for a personal, or group, creation and for what may be understood as the " timeless time " of formative creation and perpetual creating.
The real pioneers who methodically developed it as a specialized branch of warfare-the unconventional, low-intensity, guerrilla-style type of warfare as it is understood today-were probably the British and Australians.
The term " caravan park " is used to refer to both, and " RV park " and " trailer park " are never used, even to the point of not being understood by most Australians.
As had been the case with many terms, cookie is recognised and understood by Australians, and occasionally used, especially among younger generations.
American restaurants such as McDonald's continue to use the term french fries in Australia, so the term fries is understood and sometimes used by Australians ( though it is commonly applied only to chips of that particular elongated shape ).
Today throughout most of the English-speaking world, it is most commonly understood to refer to the Indigenous Australians.

Australians and twenty
McDonald acted in the 1939 film Seven Little Australians as the twenty year-old stepmother " Esther ".
Held by just four men under the command of Lance Corporal Ray Parry, the Australians fought off four separate attacks, killing more the 25 and wounding many more over the space of twenty minutes.
The three Australians, however, were immediately surrounded by a group of twenty German soldiers and disarmed.
But that is because in 1920 the Constitution was read in a new light, a light reflected from events that had, over twenty years, led to a growing realization that Australians were now one people and Australia one country and that national laws might meet national needs.
In the weeks leading up to the Battle of Brisbane there were several major incidents, including a gun battle between an American soldier and Australian troops near Inkerman which left one Australian and the American dead, an Australian soldier was shot by an American MP in Townsville, an American serviceman and three Australian soldiers in Brisbane's Centenary Park were involved in a knife fight which left one Australian dead, an American soldier was arrested for stabbing three servicemen and a Brisbane woman near the Central railway Station, and twenty Australians fought American submariners and members of the USN Shore Patrol, mauling them badly.

Australians and years
Non-Aboriginal Australians have made various attempts to understand and explain the origins of the bunyip as a physical entity over the past 150 years.
The didgeridoo ( also known as a didjeridu or didge ) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1, 500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.
Smallpox devastated the native population of Australia, killing around 50 % of Indigenous Australians in the early years of British colonisation.
Critics of this theory point out that as indigenous Australians only developed boomerangs and spears for hunting around 10, 000 years ago, a critical fall in numbers due to systematic hunting is unlikely.
Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40, 000 to 60, 000 years ago.
The ancestors of Indigenous Australians are believed to have arrived in Australia some 40, 000 to 60, 000 years ago, but possibly as early as 70, 000 years ago.
The settlement of Australia by Indigenous Australians between 48, 000 and 70, 000 years ago, and by Europeans from 1788, has significantly affected the fauna.
Indigenous Australians have occupied the lands of Australia for some 40, 000 – 60, 000 years, during which time they developed a unique hunter gatherer diet, known as " bush tucker ", drawn from regional Australian flora and fauna — such as the kangaroo.
Before the arrival of the First Fleet of Europeans at Sydney in 1788, indigenous Australians survived off the often unique native flora and fauna of the Australian bush, for between 40, 000 and 60, 000 years.
From as far back as 10, 000 years ago, members of the Boandik group of Indigenous Australians lived in temporary camps along the coast during summer, and for the rest of the year they lived near inland swamps in relatively permanent huts ( wurlas ).
Indigenous Australians were the initial inhabitants of the area and have been living there for over 26, 000 years.
The area was inhabited and was a noted hunting site for thousands of years by Indigenous Australians prior to the arrival of Europeans.
In recent years the proportion of the population identifying as Aboriginal has increased markedly ; from 0. 6 % in 1971 to 5. 1 % in 2006, partly owing to the migration of non-indigenous Australians away from Broken Hill.
It sought to give the government power over a period of five years, to legislate on monopolies, corporations, trusts, national health, family allowances, freedom of speech and religion, ex-servicemen rehabilitation, the ability to legislate for Indigenous Australians, and safeguards against the abuse of legislative power.
He purchased many important old collections, including those of Judge Frederick A. Philbrick ( 1835-1910 ) for £ 7, 000, Sir Daniel Cooper's for £ 3, 000, and W. B. Thornhill's Australians, and was a large buyer in the leading capitals of Europe for a great many years.
South Africa had been due to tour in 1975, but that series had been cancelled years before and the Australians were asked to stay for a four Test series after the World Cup.
He described his alleged exploits in search of pearls and gold in New Guinea and claimed to have spent thirty years living with Indigenous Australians in the Australian outback.
Until the mid-1990s the festival attracted mostly Scandinavians, but in recent years it has become more and more international ( with an especially large influx of Germans, Australians and British ).
Both are operated by the Fo Guang Shan Order, founded in Taiwan, and around 2003 the Grand Master, Venerable Hsing Yun, asked for Nan Tien Temple and Buddhist practice there to be operated by native Australians citizens within about thirty years.
The region has been occupied by Indigenous Australians for thousands of years, notably in the west by the Kamilaroi people.
The area around Port Phillip and the Yarra valley, on which the city of Melbourne now stands, was the home of the Kulin people, an alliance of several language groups of Indigenous Australians, whose ancestors had lived in the area for an estimated 31, 000 to 40, 000 years.
Aboriginal Australians are believed to have begun arriving in Australia as early as 60, 000 years ago, and evidence of Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least 30, 000 years.

Australians and later
In the case of indigenous Australians, unlike with the Māori of New Zealand, no treaty was ever entered into with the indigenous peoples entitling the Europeans to land ownership, under the doctrine of terra nullius ( later overturned by Mabo v Queensland, establishing the concept of native title well after colonization was already a fait accompli ).
At one point, Grace called the Australians " a damned lot of sneaks " ( he later apologised ).
Gaudron would later speak about the intense racism towards Indigenous Australians which was a part of everyday life in Moree and how it influenced her strong opposition to all forms of discrimination ; indeed, Moree was the site of a violent conflict during the Freedom Ride of 1965.
The first new member to be recruited was Keith O ' Neill who had previously played in The Empty Hours, The Windmills and Tommy Scott's pre-Space band The Australians and who Power had seen playing in local band The Windmills, fronted by Howie Payne later of The Stands and then guitarist Liam ' Skin ' Tyson, who Wilkinson knew from college and had previously played in Pyramid Dream.
Before the Australians could engage the battery, the Turks had withdrawn to a ridge to the south-west, which the Australians later dubbed " Third Ridge " ( or " Gun Ridge ").
Others believe that some of the Australians survived, only to die later.
In the later stages of the war the Canadian Corps was regarded by friend and foe alike as one of the most effective Allied military formations on the Western Front along with the Australians and New Zealanders.
The term Black War is also sometimes used to refer to other, later conflicts between European colonists and Aboriginal Australians on mainland Australia.
He later trained as a seminarian and worked as a journalist, business manager, political advisor and Executive Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.
From 1950 the ethnic composition of the church changed, with the assimilation of Irish Australians and the arrival of Eastern European Displaced Persons from 1948 and more than one million Catholics from countries such as Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia and Hungary, and later Filipinos, Vietnamese, Lebanese and Poles around the 1980s.
Despite some heavy resistance the town fell to the Australians just two days later.
There has been speculation that this incident led to Jardine's later hatred of Australians, although Christopher Douglas denies this was the case.
The first and third days of the match were washed out by rain ; the Minor Counties ' total of 127 relied heavily on 51 from Norman Riches, later Glamorgan's first first-class captain, and the three South African wickets that fell for 22 runs by close of play on the second day were all taken by Durham medium-pace bowler Alfred Morris, whose only other first-class match was for " An England XI " against the Australians later that summer, when he took seven further wickets for a team composed largely of Test players.
After Griffiths, an old friend and former member of Scott's earliest group The Australians, joined them on keyboards a year later, they secured a recording contract with Gut Records who released their first single, " Money " in 1995.
35 minutes later as the 26th Brigade came ashore, they were attacked by a nine Japanese aircraft which inflicted a number of casualties on the Australians in the LCIs, with eight men being killed, including the commanding officer of the 2 / 23rd Battalion, while another 20 men being wounded.
Although there were other large-scale encounters between the Australians and Viet Cong in later years, 1 ATF was not fundamentally challenged again.
Continuing for 22 minutes, it damaged a number of vehicles and tents and wounded 24 Australians, one of whom later died.
A third wounded Viet Cong soldier was later captured by the Australians and all three were given emergency medical assistance before being evacuated.
By 20 August the Australians had counted 245 Viet Cong dead ; however, scores more were found later.
Yet the limited number of decorations ultimately issued later resulted in criticism that many of the Australians who fought at Long Tan had not received appropriate recognition.
Although there were a number of other large-scale encounters between the Australians and Viet Cong in later years, 1 ATF was not fundamentally challenged again.
The magnitude of the battle and its proximity to Nui Dat shocked the Australians, and later it was suggested by some that Jackson had either suspected that a Viet Cong regiment was nearby or that after being presented with SIGINT from 547 Troop which suggested its presence he had refused to accept it.

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