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  • noun A non-Aboriginal Australian.

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Examples

  • Migaloo - the name is an Aboriginal word meaning "whitefella" - is the world's best-known all-white humpback and has built up a loyal following in Australia since first being sighted in 1991.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • [A] udiences realised they were seeing something that marked a quantum leap beyond such well-meaning but limited 'whitefella' depictions of Aboriginal life as Bruce Beresford's The Fringe Dwellers (1986) and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002).

    GreenCine Daily: Sight & Sound. June 07 + Cannes. 2007

  • BOOK: What kind of contemporary romance novel includes its hardworking policy-making Murri heroine debating race relations with her whitefella policeman love interest, lucid dreams of international sexy times, and a group of delightful female friends being delightful?

    Adult Fic, I Read That Too karenhealey 2010

  • There's also "blackfella"/"whitefella", but like a lot of extremely Australian words barbie, snag, etc.

    languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

  • The average whitefella would probably regard use of Koori as a bit overly politically correct.

    languagehat.com: ABORIGINES. 2005

  • In pre-whitefella times, Aboriginal women mourned by gashing their heads with sharpened stones, removing great chunks of scalp and hair, disfiguring themselves permanently.

    Film | guardian.co.uk Germaine Greer 2010

  • Again, that's justified because the Intervention is just one in the long line of whitefella ideas that have made no difference and will make no difference, because the gaping wound in the Aboriginal psyche cannot be healed.

    Film | guardian.co.uk Germaine Greer 2010

  • If a real estate agent had tried to swindle a whitefella out of land in this way, he'd go to jail.

    unknown title 2009

  • If a real estate agent had tried to swindle a whitefella out of land in this way, he'd go to jail.

    unknown title 2009

  • It is mostly romantic whitefella dreams of lost spirituality refound out there in the desert.

    unknown title 2009

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