| It is the study of such creatures as the Australian bunyip, Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster. |
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| However, most Australians now consider the existence of the bunyip to be mythical. |
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| It's mirrored by an account told by white settlers of a paddle steamer captain who shot a bunyip. |
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| After the bunyip returned home, Tyawan crept out of his cave to search for his magic bone. |
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| The Professor was going to pelt Hugh Mackay with a great, malodorous barrage of bunyip droppings, but then realised there wouldn't be any point. |
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| Stan Gudgeon has trained his beady, jaundiced bunyip eye on leftie econo-blogger John Quiggin. |
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| His unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy. |
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| So many things to get a bunyip upset, so little time to fulminate about them. |
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| Negotiations could put that difference to rights in this new age of the bunyip aristocracy. |
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| The bunyip lives in creeks, swamps, and billabongs and has a loud, bellowing cry. |
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| Monday's honours list included one cringeworthy addition to the bunyip aristocracy of knights and dames. |
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| Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour. |
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| The radical politician denounced her scheme as a bunyip aristocracy. |
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| His play on the word bunyip, with its overtones of anachronistic absurdity, reflected the refusal by Australians to institutionalise an upper class. |
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| South Australia seems to be the last redoubt in Australia of the fawning, bunyip Aristocracy that yearns after the good old days where everyone was in their place. |
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| The conceptual confusion in the article may come from an insufficient awareness of the stakes of the struggles against colonial bunyip aristocracies so many years ago. |
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| Speculations started to spread at the speed of a galloping bunyip. |
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| The bunyip was an imaginary creature from aboriginal legend, sometimes described as an imposter inhabiting swamps and billabongs. The Courier Mail, an influential tabloid in Brisbane owned by Rupert Murdoch, was more savage. |
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| One particularly fierce bunyip described by Smith was well known as a man-eater throughout south Australia. |
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| If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella. |
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| During a chance meeting with a mystical Bunyip elder, TY discovers that his fellow Tasmanian Tigers are still alive, but trapped in another world called Dreamtime. |
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