mateships

Great friendships and great mateships come out of it because you've all been exposed and experienced it together.

Nielsen relishing thrilling decider 2009

Anything that can be argued, for and against, from half a dozen different points of view -- and most things that men argue over can be -- and anything that has been argued about for thousands of years (as most things have) is worse than profitless; it wastes the world's time and ours, and often wrecks old mateships.

Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894