a belt-tightening diet worse than that of the poorest stringybark cockatoo
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With no other means of support, the miner goes to work for a "stringybark cockatoo."
He traces the evolution of the Australian balled through the satirical ditties in which hired men expressed their feelings about the "stringybark cockatoo" who employed them.
These were the selectors, the stringybark cockatoos, the failed goldseekers turned settlers, battling it out on the thin edge of survival.
Dad and Dave were not pastoral workers, bushmen proper, but poor selectors, 'stringybark cockatoos', who were sneered at by the men from farther out.
The party also inherited the meat-eaters contempt for both the aristocratic squatter and the foolish 'stringy-bark cockatoo'.