on a kind of related note:
here is a clip from
Good News Week (a tv show much loved by Chee, Forever, and me) which gives you a glimpse at some of our slang (and the accent with which it should be spoken) and explains "Carn the Pies!"
If you are somewhat bemused or distracted by Paul McDermot's accompanying mime/dance, here is a daggy version of the song
Road to Gundagai, complete with country bumpkin banjo!
*(the "sculpture of a canine sitting on a food recepticle" is the
Dog on the Tuckerbox - ie: lunch box)