Strewth mate! Where have those expressions that made Australian speech so distinct gone, asks Ray Chesterton. My cobber is crook as Rookwood somewhere near the Black Stump and I'm going to get him."

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Steve Irwin was a Larrikin

Steve Irwin was a larrikin - not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Grabbing a giant carving knife, she told the startled intruder "You call that a knife? This is a knife" in an echo of the famous scene in the Crocodile Dundee film when actor Paul Hogan confronted a New York mugger.

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