Australian History

Cooking the books ?

Have you guys read the clues by any chance ?

The clues so far

I am an expression from the mid 18th century

I came about because of the actions of a very small minority

The minority group were doing something similar to bush rangers, but it was legal

but what they were trying to do had a few people spewin

The person that actually coined the phrase had a habit of referring to himself in the 3rd person in his writings

with noble ambitions

New clue
You really have to peer into the clues and hints

And all those clues will lead you to an Australian mythical creature, maybe

Top 15 aussie mythical creatures =

A
Akurra
B
Blue Mountains panther
Bunyip
D
Dirawong
Drop bear
G
Gundagai lore
M
Mimi (folklore)
Minka Bird
Muldjewangk
P
Papinijuwari
Q
Queensland tiger
W
Wagyl
Wirnpa
Y
Yara-ma-yha-who
Yowie

Now i struggle to make a 18th 19th century expression or phrase from them. I read the clues but i am to thick to crack the criptic nature of them :lol:

Aussie , part of the answer is in B :Y:
No you're not too thick mate, it's just your blood isn't blue enough :lol: :lol:

That wasn't the answer then, I'll suss out the clues a bit more.

Bunyip

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a "synonym for impostor, pretender, humbug and the like" in the broader Australian community.[1] The term bunyip aristocracy was first coined in 1853 to describe Australians aspiring to be aristocrats. In the early 1990s, it was famously used by Prime Minister Paul Keating to describe members of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia opposition.[9][10]

Cheers

Doug

Rockhunter62 said:

Bunyip

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a "synonym for impostor, pretender, humbug and the like" in the broader Australian community.[1] The term bunyip aristocracy was first coined in 1853 to describe Australians aspiring to be aristocrats. In the early 1990s, it was famously used by Prime Minister Paul Keating to describe members of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia opposition.[9][10]

Cheers

Doug

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That's near enough for me mate :Y: :Y:
"bunyip aristocracy " was the term .from Wikipedia

Bunyip aristocracy is an Australian term satirising attempts to develop an aristocracy in the colonies now forming that country. It was first coined in 1853 by Daniel Deniehy who made a speech lambasting the attempt by William Wentworth to establish a titled aristocracy in the New South Wales government. This speech came to be known as the Bunyip Aristocracy speech.

Deniehy made speeches opposing the new self-titled Australian aristocracy in the Victorian theatre and on the soapbox at Circular Quay.

In response to Wentworth's proposal to create an hereditary peerage in New South Wales, Deniehy's satirical comments included: "Here, we all know the common water mole was transferred into the duck-billed platypus, and in some distant emulation of this degeneration, I suppose we are to be favoured with a "bunyip aristocracy." (The bunyip is an Ancestral Being of Aboriginal Dreaming.) Deniehy's ridicule caused the idea to be dropped.

Among those singled out in his speech by Deniehy was James MacArthur (17981867), the son of John MacArthur, who had been nominated to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1839 and was later (1859) elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (the lower house was only created in 1856):

Next came the native aristocrat James MacArthur, he would he supposed, aspire to the coronet of an earl, he would call him the Earl of Camden, and he suggests for his coat of arms a field vert, the heraldic term for green, and emblazoned on this field should be a rum keg[1] of a New South Wales order of chivalry.

The strong popular support for Deniehy's views caused the abandonment of the proposal he was responding to. It probably also delayed the introduction of an Australian honours system. The Order of Australia was not introduced until 1975. Until that time Australians were awarded British honours.

'Bunyip aristocracy' is now a pejorative term for those Australians who consider themselves to be aristocrats

Your turn Doug

Give me a few hours xcvator, I have to do the mowing and whipper snipping first. I will get back in a while folks.

Cheers

Doug

In my early days I was associated with peaches. ]

What, who, where, when and why?

Cheers

Doug

Was it Dame Nelly Melba, famous opera singer, after whom the dessert Peach Melba was named? It was invented by August Escoffier when he was head chef at the Savoy Hotel, where Dame Nelly used to stay. This would have been in the 1890's.

No DrDuck.

Maybe I should of said Peach Tin. ]

Cheers

Doug

Mervyn Victor Richardson???

Peach tin lawnmower (Victa)
Mervyn Victor Richardson
Concord
1951
Coz he was tired of pushing hand lawnmowers

Xcvator,

I'll give it to you. The first 4 answers are right but the last one is incorrect, he invented the Peach-Tin Prototype to be lighter and useable by one person.

The 'Victa' lawn mower was invented in 1952, in the backyard of Mervyn Victor Richardson in Concord, Australia.[2]

In 1951, Mervyn's son Garry mowed lawns to earn money in university holidays. Garry borrowed Mervyn's Victa 14" cylinder-based power mower which was heavy to transport and to operate. Mervyn wanted to design a new mower for his son's business. Mervyn had seen Lawrence Hall's 'Mowhall' rotary lawn mower demonstrated in 1948. The heavy Mowhall was not a very successful invention because it required two people to use it, one to push and one to pull.

Although Richardson had developed rotating reel mowers for his son's business, in August 1952 he decided to make a rotary lawn mower similar to the Mowhall, using a Villiers two-stroke engine mounted on its side but utilising a lighter base plate, allowing use by a single operator. He wanted it to be cheaper, lighter and more powerful. It was called the "Peach-Tin Prototype", so named because it was made out of scrap metal with a peach tin used as a fuel tank.

By 1953, demand for the mowers was so strong that Richardson gave up his job and became full-time manager of Victa Mowers Pty Ltd. In 1958, the company had moved to a new factory at Milperra, New South Wales, and its 3,000 employees were building 143,000 mowers a year for export to 28 countries. [3]

Since 1952, Victa has sold over 8 million lawn mowers in 30 countries. In later years, the company was owned by GUD Holdings Limited, who sold the Victa Lawn Care business to American-based Briggs & Stratton for A$23 million in 2008.[4]

The archive of Philip Larkin's work at University of Hull includes the blue Victa lawn mower involved in the incident that inspired his famous poem 'The Mower'.[5][6]

The Victa Peach Tin prototype and other important Victa lawn mowers were donated to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.[7]

Over to you again xcvator.

Cheers

Doug

Rockhunter62 said:

Xcvator,
I'll give it to you. The first 4 answers are right but the last one is incorrect, he invented the Peach-Tin Prototype to be lighter and useable by one person.

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I am OK with that. I only gave a partial answer.

Stand Up Australia and Be Proud of Our Inventors.
Mackka :Y: :Y: :Y: :Y: :Y: :Y: :Y: :Y:

I'll pass, you have a go RJ

Sorry, replied to my earlier post, without checking that someone had it!

xcvator said:

I'll pass, you have a go RJ

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Oh I had a good question too. Let me find it....

Ramjet said:

xcvator said:

I'll pass, you have a go RJ

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Oh I had a good question too. Let me find it....

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You'd better be quick :lol: :lol: :lol: I was just about to usurp your spot ]