whitefeller

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Etymology

From white +‎ feller.

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whitefeller (plural whitefellers)

  1. (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
    In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
    • 1842 February 16, The Inquirer, Perth, page 5, column 2:
      "Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.
    • 1959, Donald Stuart, Yandy, page 11:
      The whitefellers did not let anyone but whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.
    • 1992, Patricia Shaw, The Feather and the Stone, published 2011, unnumbered page:
      ‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can′t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’
    • 2010, Adrian Hyland, Gunshot Road, page 4:
      In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky.
      Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn′t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.

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