Word origins

• bungA stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
• KalingaAn indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.
• bunyaThe bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.
• IndooroopillyA suburb of Brisbane, Queensland.
• bungwallA species of fern, Telmatoblechnum indicum, native to Australia and Southeast Asia.
• dilly bagA traditional Australian Aboriginal string bag, made from twisted bark fibres and used for gathering food.
• hard yakkaHard work.
• MaiwarThe Brisbane River, especially in Indigenous Australian contexts.
• MeanjinThe spike of land on which central Brisbane is located, especially in an Indigenous Australian sense.
• TurrbalAn Indigenous Australian people who inhabited much of the area of and around what is now Brisbane.
• ugariThe edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, which is endemic to Australia.
• YagaraAn Indigenous Australian people who inhabited much of the area of and around what is now Brisbane.