Word origins

• BallaratA city and old gold mining town in Victoria, Australia.
• tuanA brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
• WerribeeA suburb of Melbourne in the City of Wyndham, Victoria, Australia.
• bunyipA mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.
• murnongA perennial herb of temperate Australia, Microseris lanceolata, or its edible tuber, an important food for Aboriginal Australians.