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This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.
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.
"Rather, their job is to work out ways of showing a quarter of the voters of Queensland how mistaken they were."
In Hong Kong Monday, the South China Morning Post ran its second editorial in a week about One Nation, observing the Queensland election result "says very worrying things" about Australia, with "deep implications" for its relations with Asia.
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.