So… is chuffed a good or bad thing? Here it’s a noise a dog makes.
As for squirrels, I have a Hawaiian friend who’d never seen one in real life until she came to the mainland as an adult, and was surprised to learn that people who’d told her as a kid they were vicious were lying. 
There’s really no need to cast these sorts of ugly aspersions on your macropod cousins just because they’re bigger and more popular than you are. I’m sure Vanilla Ice still loves you.
Sorry, no, that was a wallaroo.
At least you’re a much more successful export than kangaroos - there are feral wallaby populations in Hawaii, France, Germany and several in the UK and New Zealand.
According to the OED it’s of US origin originally; first British citation is from 1977, though I remember it from earlier than that in Ireland. In the US it goes back to the late nineteenth century.
I just missed the emu invasion of Peterborough a few weeks ago. Most of them had left town when I was there but there were still paddocks full of them on surrounding farms.
I’ve come across kangaroos and emus when I go for a run in the park near home (Adelaide) and the emus make me more nervous. They’re more likely to scurry out of the way but I feel like I can’t trust them, like they might go for me when my back is turned. A kangaroo will deliberately stand its ground on a narrow track where we can’t pass each other but will eventually grumble and move aside to chew some grass.
In my defence because I am thousands of kilometres from Canberra, which is on the other side of the country I’ve no clue what goes on over there.
“chuffed” is a good thing. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chuffed
I was riding on Hindmarsh Drive last week, it was a war zone, dead bodies everywhere.
I’ve seen a wild platypus, also in Tasmania, just outside one of the parks. Proper close up as well, maybe 4 metres away at the closest. I was walking along an old railway bridge and it was right below me. I sat and watched it catching stuff for about 5 minutes, until it vanished upstream.
I’m not even Aussie. Nyah. 
Bitch.
Aussie here, who has never seen a platypus in the wild.
You should get out more …
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+1, whereas chaffed is a bad thing … and if you are speaking with a kiwi you can’t tell the difference anyhow. 
Aussie Slang and the invention of the word “selfy”
Revive thread on slang with a bold hed for something interesting I read in Wall Street Journal, and it’s more-than-local influence:
According to a column filler, **Crikey, Bruce, Our Aussie Lingo Has Gone Walkabout**SerenDipitously published during this thread, a feature of Aussie-talk is adding the “y” (“ee”) to as many things as possible. I recall many new ones to me from my main source, YouTube’s Ozzyman.
[I believe in the US we do that less, because to us it has a cutesy, faintly infantile quality, but that’s a different topic.]
Anyway, it claims without a cite that “selfy” stems from this rich tradition. Which is pretty neat. Is it true?
More language queries from Ozzyman:
Lengthy description cause I’m not sure if I got it right. What’s the word?
“[d&r]”?
Selfie - apparently the first documented use is by an Australian, and the general shortening+ie [barbie, cossie, mossies, boozzies] thing that happens in Australia seems plausible.
Yousie - ‘a photo of you taken by someone else’ has failed to catch on in a similar way [?Flight of the Conchords joke]
Bogan - your definition is pretty close but add in wilfully lazy, KMart wardrobe and trying extra hard not to appear intelligent
Harry –> Hazza - yeah, why not, but not sure its particularly Australian. Sharon –> Shazza is definitely British usage, although Warren / Warwick/ Woger –> Wozza is almost compulsory round these here parts.
Darren on this clip seems like a poster boy for “boganism” (and he’s not bothered by the term, so check him out). I think a mullet (haircut "business in the front, party in the back) is part of the “uniform” for boganism. Darren’s wearing warm clothes because he’s in Tassie and it’s cold. In the hotter parts of the country, you’d see bogans wearing singlets, stubbies (short shorts) and thongs (flipflops, rubber shower shoes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjRwwlFaTg
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From your cite, it seems “bogan” is a sort of newish, definitely dateable social identity in the midst of identifying itself–sort of like how hipster (or hippy, even) became a thing, and maintaining the former’s irony (at times, here obviously since it’s a “tournament,” as well as your note of “trying extra hard” just to piss off others) without the snobbery.
Can’t think what the US equivalent would be. Definitely aspects of Spicoli.
No, notwithstanding the “hahaha” aspects making fun of it in the media, it’s still essentially a nasty, derogatory term for people from low(er) socio-economic areas and backgrounds. It’s definitely snobbish - it’s saying that they don’t have any style or taste and should be laughed at for their disadvantages in education and background.
If you saw Elle McPherson on the beach, she’d be wearing a cossie and you could see her boozzies under the lycra. At night-time you need to watch out for mossies, you might need some repellant.
Talked to a local Aussie (but off island for 30 years, so not so upon the latest slang).
He understood it–and one’s own social class and principles obviously come into play–as used deprecatorily. So, I vote for USA red-beck, although it is geographically regional.
“Red-neck engineering” or some-such is a meme both showing trashy cheap repairs but clever ones. And of course there is a similar self-aware pushback from those “socio-economic members” to celebrate themselves.
So yes, the “snobbery” and worse which my friend and you noted is absolutely presented, and I think inevitable so.
What I meant above was in the counter example of hipsters, self_identification and public identity is “their” snobbery by being oh-so-ironic-and-self-aware by demonstrating their “irony” and, iconically, ordering Pabst Blue Ribbon because it’s so cheap (low class) and they are the first to tell you–with knowledge–how other beers taste better.
To a greatly lesser extent, trying hard to be thick/less intelligent, if true, is a kind of in-group snobbery as well, by being ironic as well as unhelpful/fuck you ish to non-bogan’s who think they’re dealing with cretins. In this, occasionally, exactly similar to “red-necks.”
ETA: Still not there: “cossies”?
Cx: opening “” is a finger slip.
cossie is a shortening of the word “costume”, specifically “swimming costume” or “bathing costume”, which is what they in the eastern states of Australia call the outfit you wear to go swimming. Over here, we call them/it “bathers”.
Sorry Cobber but in Victoria they are called swimmers.