G'day Kitty,

I'm at a disadvantage, in that I don't have this recording ... but I'll guess about the ones andymac didn't cover:

Coober Pedy, (local Aboriginal words for "hole in the ground") an opal mining town in northern South Australia (just south of The Northern Territory ...) is all underground, to avoid the desert heat. I don't know the context of John's song, but dust would be ever-present in the dugout homes and/or mines. (Miners often just open a door in their living quarters and walk into their opal mine!).

It may, in the song, be a sign of extra unstability ... or refer to the effects of blasting activity very close to where the subject is working / living ... ?

I lived in Tasmania (Tassie) in the 1960s ... and can't make a match to "Miffy" ... but there is a small town in the eastern midlands of Tasmania called Liffey. (Like most ex-colonial countries, Tasmania is littered with names from assorted "old countries".)

BTW: Mike Watts, who runs a folk music business (mainly instruments, books and teaching sessions) called Celtic Southern Cross, lives at Liffey ... in a pleasant bend of a nice trout stream, flowing out of the Western High Tiers.

Regards,

Bob