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And when, in 1820, Phillip King landed at the Endeavour River, in the north of what is now Queensland, where Cook's glossary was obtained, he found that the local Aborigines did not recognize the word, using a name something like menuah instead.
It was 1972 before the linguist John Haviland identified the word in the Queensland language Guugu Yimidhirr, where it denoted a particular species of kangaroo and evidenced the fineness of distinction that characterizes Aboriginal languages.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard came under strong attack both at home and in Asia for his failure to curb the political momentum of the racist, anti-Asian One Nation Party, which won nearly a quarter of the votes in elections in Queensland this weekend.
He suggested that it was a transferred use of the Queensland Aboriginal word for a particularly noisy bird and that the connection was made by percipient Aborigines who applied it first to the German missionaries of 1838, having noted their garrulousness.
But then an earlier life was revealed: from the 1840s, and in Queensland especially, jackeroo had been used of a white man who lived beyond the bounds of close settlement and had taken on some of the not so savoury connotations of frontiersman.