Thanks for the definitions. I believe it would be hard for a car to actually skittle a rubbish bin, because the bin is too big. Probably he merely knocked it sideways.

I think we have a housing material like weatherboard, but the boards go vertically, not horizontally. I believe it's gone out of style. It seems to me that the author of this book pays a lot attention to houses and how they are built. Perhaps he dreamed of being an architect.

While we're chatting, I'll mention that the new building material for small buildings seems to be stucco - a kind of thin, beige cement. New neighborhoods here have beige shopping centers, beige houses and beige restaurants. We refer to all of it as Stuccoville.

Stoush is an interesting word. I wonder where that came from.
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That's the end of the Australian words in this book. It's been fun.