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• A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.
• During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.
• [Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs, no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’71
• I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.
• ‘[...]I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’
• “Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.”
• “And why is that?” Bill asked.
• “The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”