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Yakka is a loan word from two different Australian Aboriginal languages, both now commonly used in broader Australian English vocabulary. The word may refer to:
  • Hard work, from the Jagara people of Moreton Bay. It was spelled yakker or yacker until World War II [1]. To engage in hard yakka is a common phrase in the Australian lexicon. One of Australia's most well-known brands of work clothing is called Hard Yakka.
  • A grasstree, also spelled yacca or yacka, Xanthorrhoea. Probably a loanword from a South Australian language such as Kaurna. It is often called blackboy, although this term is becoming somewhat politically incorrect.
  • The Yakka Skink, a small reptile native to Australia.
  • There is also an Australian town, Yacka, South Australia, possibly named after the abundance of the Xanthorrhoea plant in the area.
  • Yakka Punch, a drink made primarily with vodka and lemons, with claims of origin in Stellenbosch, South Africa
1. ^ Peters, Pam, The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p823
Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. The term includes both the Torres Strait Islanders and the Aboriginal People, who together make up about 2.5% of Australia's population.
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Belgium sausage – Tasmania (A beef variant is known as beef Belgium.)
  • Byron sausage – New England.
  • devon – Victoria, New South Wales (except Hunter Valley and New England), Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory
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    • Work may refer to:
    • Mechanical work, the amount of energy transferred by a force
    • Work (thermodynamics), the quantity of energy transferred from one system to another
    • "Work", one's place of employment

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    Moreton Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of Australia 19 km from Brisbane, Queensland.

    The Port of Brisbane coordinates large traffic along the shipping channel which crosses the northern waters of the bay.
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    Belgium sausage – Tasmania (A beef variant is known as beef Belgium.)
  • Byron sausage – New England.
  • devon – Victoria, New South Wales (except Hunter Valley and New England), Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory
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    • Xanthorrhoea
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    Xanthorrhoea is a genus of flowering plants native to Australia and a member of family Xanthorrhoeaceae. The Xanthorrhoeaceae are monocots, part of order Asparagales.
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    South Australia

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    Government Constitutional monarchy
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    Kaurna (pronounced "Garner" or "Gowna") people are a group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands lie in and around the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. Kaurna language is the spoken language of the Kaurna people.
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