The term derives from Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870), which established a model in classic poems like From the Wreck and The Sick Stockrider.

CANBERRA, Australia, April 4, 2008— -- Australia's prime minister came under fire athome Friday over a playful salute he gave U.S. President George W. Bush at aNATO summit, which critics said ...

An Australian grandmother of seven is being hailed a hero after she rushed into a raging bushfire to rescue a screaming koala bear, which had been badly injured by flames.