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Furphy
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Furphy
Joseph, pen name Tom Collins. 1843--1912, Australian author. His works include the classic Australian novel Such is Life (1903) and The Buln-Buln and the Brolga (1948)


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Manipulations, such as the falsehoods, fabrications, fictions, furphies, fallacies and fantasies on display in publications such as Whitewash.
There were furphies around of bodies being "mined" and assurances from the authorities that no casualties to burial parties had occurred because of this.
2) "Australian Literature in China: On the Ascendancy and On the Edge--Some Thoughts on the Problems with the Chinese Reception and Perception of Australian Literature", Notes and Furphies, no.
 
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