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  • Bill Wannan's great book of Australian humour.

    • Text
    • Adelaide : Rigby, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 81-2393Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • This side of the rabbit proof fence; a collection of reminiscences enlivened by tall stories of rural Australia, by Wilbur G. Howcroft.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 73-9779Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Witzepräsident Maxi Böhm. Illustr. v. Rudolf Angerer.

    • Text
    • Wien, Kremayr & Scheriau (1972).
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 74-849Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • With malice aforethought: Australian insults, invective, ridicule & abuse; selected and annotated by Bill Wannan.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 75-1838Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Dictionary of Australian humorous quotations and anecdotes / compiled and edited by Bill Wannan.

    • Text
    • South Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 76-1119Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Comic Australian verse.

    • Text
    • Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 77-11667Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Black with white cockatoos : or, Mopokes and mallee roots : a humorous collection of rural reminiscences spiced with a diverse assortment of yarns, both true and legendary / [by] Wilbur G. Howcroft.

    • Text
    • Melbourne : Hawthorn Press, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 79-8216Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Best Australian jokes. Compiled by a group of Australian journalists who prefer to remain anonymous rather than get involved in interminable pub arguments.

    • Text
    • London, Wolfe Publishing [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 79-155Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The bushman who laughed again / by Wilbur G. Howcroft ; illustrated by Vane Lindesay.

    • Text
    • Richmond, Vic. : Hutchinson , 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 88-9956Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • You might as well laugh, mate : Australian humour in hard times / Keith Willey.

    • Text
    • South Melbourne : Macmillan Co. of Australia, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 86-101Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The wit of Whitlam / by Deane Wells.

    • Text
    • Collingwood, Australia : Outback, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAY 2848Offsite
  • The scrambled egghead; a screwball scrapbook for grownups, by Alistair Morrison.

    • Text
    • Sydney, Ure Smith [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 90-800Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • It's a joke, Joyce : Australia's funny women / Wendy Harmer.

    • Text
    • Sydney : Pan Books, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWET 91-11272Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Love gone wrong / Wendy Harmer ; illustrations by Bruce Currie.

    • Text
    • Sydney, Australia : Macmillan, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 92-4633Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Little theories of life / Peter FitzSimons.

    • Text
    • North Sydney, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 92-4772Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Roll on brave new bloody world / Text by Sam Orr ; cartoons by Leunig.

    • Text
    • London ; Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAY B-10283Offsite
  • Uncensored Adams, Phillip Adams, illustrated by Victoria Roberts

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Vic., Nelson c1981
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 89-9354Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Aussie humour / collected by Tom Hayllar and Rex Sadler.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Vic. : Nelson, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 92-4137Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Great Aussie insults / [compiled by] Bill Wannan.

    • Text
    • South Yarra, Vic., Australia : Viking O'Neil, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 93-9056Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A superior person's little book of words / Peter Bowler.

    • Text
    • North Ryde [N.S.W.] : Methuen Australia, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 93-9401Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The humour of Barry Humphries / selected by John Allen ; illustrations by Barry Humphries.

    • Text
    • Sydney : Currency Press, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 93-11464Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Back to the wall : a curious assortment of original graffiti / by Bruce Ridley ; illustrations by Cherry Johnson.

    • Text
    • Cottesloe, W.A. : Inca Books, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 93-10837Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Political pryorities : how to get on top of Australian politics / Dennis Pryor.

    • Text
    • Sydney : Pan Books, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 93-2076Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Illustrated treasury of Australian humour / chosen by Michael Sharkey.

    • Text
    • Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 93-1679Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Lennie Lower stop me if you've heard it anthology of humorous short stories.

    • Text
    • Crows Nest, NSW : ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 93-14079Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Yarns! : from all round Australia / Mike Hayes.

    • Text
    • Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Cor., 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 95-14860Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The pub & the scrub / Neil Hulm ; [illustrations, Ken Maynard].

    • Text
    • [Lavington, N.S.W. : N. Hulm], c1987
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 94-6242Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Facts and fable from up North / [Jack O'Connor] ; illustrations by Phyllis Jackson and Henry Briskey.

    • Text
    • [Rollingstone, Qld.] : J. O'Connor, c1985
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 94-6233Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Penguin book of Australian jokes / collected by Phillip Adams and Patrice Newell.

    • Text
    • Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y. : Viking Penguin, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 95-5114Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Hitchhiking for ugly people : --and other life experiences / Peter Fitzsimons.

    • Text
    • Milsons Point, NSW : Random House, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 96-9812Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Coodabeen Champions take a good, hard look at Australia.

    • Text
    • South Yarra, Vic. : Viking O'Neil ; New York Viking, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFG 94-908Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Tell us anotheree! : more yarns from all round Australia / Mike Hayes.

    • Text
    • Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 95-8204Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • 3 beers and a Chinese meal / [Helen Razer and Mikey Robins].

    • Text
    • Milsons Point, NSW ; New York : Random House Australia ; [S.l.] : Triple J, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 96-10321Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The secret diary of Jeffrey Kennett aged 45 1/4 / edited by Peter Blazey ; illustrated by Peter Freeman.

    • Text
    • Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 96-6861Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Australian yarn : the definitive collection / Ron Edwards ; with illustrations by the author.

    • Text
    • Adelaide : University of Queensland Press, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 96-24073Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The cornstalk, his habits and habitat. By Whaks Li Kell [pseud.]

    • Text
    • Sydney, 1894.
    • 1894
    • 1 Item
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    Text BHD (Kell, W. L."Cornstalk," "his habits and habitat")Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Penguin book of more Australian jokes / collected by Phillip Adams and Patrice Newell.

    • Text
    • Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y. : Viking Penguin, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 97-3210Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Year after year / by Leon Gellert.

    • Text
    • Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text C-10 1196Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Australian comic dictionary of words and phrases.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, E.W. Cole [n.d.]
    • -
    • 1 Item
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    Text C-11 837 no. 1-5Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Hay, hell and booligal / Bill Wannan.

    • Text
    • Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text C-12 818 no. 1-5Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A treasury of Australian humour, gathered together with an introd. and commentaries.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Lansdowne Press [1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-14 144Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Don't frighten the horses / Intro. by "Nino Culotta."

    • Text
    • Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-14 4961Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Around the army and other nonsense, by S.W. Keough ("BO" of The Bulletin); illustrated by Scorfield.

    • Text
    • Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade, Ltd., 1943.
    • 1943-
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-11 9817 no. 1-5Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A Treasury of Anzac humour / edited by Roger Fair.

    • Text
    • Brisbane : Jacaranda Press, [1965]
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-16 6251Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Fair go, spinner : a treasury of popular Australian humour / Illustrated by Vane Lindesay.

    • Text
    • [Melbourne] : Lansdowne Press, [1964]
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
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    Text D-16 8156Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • On our selection, and Our new selection, by Steele Rudd [pseud.

    • Text
    • Sydney, Angus and Robertson [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
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    Text D-14 1777Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Just fancy, Mr. Fatchen! a collection of verse, prose and fate's cruel blows.

    • Text
    • [Adelaide] Rigby [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-18 7057 no. 1- 5Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A Treasury of Australian frontier tales.

    • Text
    • Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E-11 9245Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Modern Australian humour.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Lansdowne Press [1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F-10 8584Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Ironbark chips and stockwhip cracks by G. Herbert Gibson, with seventy-eight illus. by Percy F. S. Spence and Alf. Vincent.

    • Text
    • Melbourne [etc.] George Robertson & Co. [pref. 1893]
    • 1893
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NCM (Gibson, G. H. Ironbark chips and stockwhip cracks)Offsite

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