A coldie in a stubby cooler

Fair Dinkem!

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December 1st 2011
Hey 'how you goin'? There are so many hilarious Aussie expressions! The title of this blog -fair dinkem- means "genuine" or "authentic". So you could say 'fair dinkem mate' and you would mean 'true, my friend' or you could say 'this Michael Jackson autograph is fair dinkem', i.e. 'this MJ autograph is genuine'. If you 'ring up a sparkie', you' ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more