Wow! Thanks, everyone, for responding. Lots of info here that is new to me!

I'm curious about the comment from jup: "Slavery is part of Australian history mainly in the sugar industry." Can someone tell me more about that? Who was enslaved – Aborigines, Africans, or some other ethnic population? (For that matter, were the slaveowners Europeans, or from somewhere else?)

Murray: I never would have thought that "kangaroo" was slang for the male member (being the prude that I am *G*), but it makes sense. After all, in the US it's got several animal slang-names (the "mouse in the pocket" joke is a classic), so why not a jumping kangaroo?! I wonder how few other people of that time caught on to the symbolism, since it's less obvious than, for instance, the song "My Ding-a-Ling" of a few years earlier.

By the way, I had to look up "priapically" (meaning "phallically" – the word originates with the Roman god of male generative power, Priapus, in turn from the Greek god Priapos). As I said, there's lots of info here! ;^)

Sharon