Browsing terms categorised by: Aussie Places & Spaces
- Alice, The
- Alice Springs, the third largest town in the Northern Territory. Noted for its harmony and lack of social issues.
- Back of Beyond
- A long way away, very remote. Out in the bush.
- Back of Bourke
- A long way away, very remote. Way out in the bush/outback.
- Bananaland
- Queensland.
- Berrimah Line, The
- The geographical line that supposedly separates Darwin from the rest of the Northern Territory. It deliniates the haves (Darwin) from the have nots (those south of the Berrimah Line).
- Big Island
- The Australian mainland, from a Tasmanian point of view.
- Big Smoke
- The city.
- Billabong
- A pool of water left sitting at a river bend when the water flow dries up. From the Wiradhuri (indigenous) language.
- Black Stump, beyond the
- A long way away, very remote. Beyond civilisation, out in the bush/outback.
- Black Stump, this side of the
- Belonging to civilisation, the known world.
- Brisvegas
- Brisbane.
- Brizzie
- Brisbane.
- Bundy
- A place (Bundaberg); a rum.
- Bush
- Any sparsely-inhabited natural region, largely uncultivated; anywhere outside urban areas. Using the term "bush" of a thing or activity gives it a rural or country context.
- Franger
- Frankston, a suburb of Melbourne.
- Mainlander
- A person from the mainland of Australia, from a Tasmanian point of view.
- Never Never
- Distant outback. Too far out. You don't want to go there. It is described in Barcroft Boake's poem "Where the Dead Men Lie", and in Archibald William Stirling's 'The Never Never Land: a Ride in North Queensland' (1884).
- Othersider
- Someone living on the other side of the Nullarbor Plain (WA).
- Shaky Isles
- New Zealand. A nickname derived from New Zealand's frequent earthquakes.
- Straya
- Australia.