<P> A Battler is a person with few natural advantages, who works doggedly and with little reward, who struggles for a livelihood and who displays courage . The first citation for this comes from Henry Lawson in While the Billy Boils (1896): </P> <P> I sat on him pretty hard for his pretensions, and paid him out for all the patronage he'd worked off on me...and told him never to pretend to me again he was a battler . </P> <P> The origins of other terms are not as clear, or are disputed . Dinkum or fair dinkum means "true", "the truth", "speaking the truth", "authentic" and related meanings, depending on context and inflection . The Evening News (Sydney, NSW) 23 August 1879 has one of the earliest references to fair dinkum . It originated with a now - extinct dialect word from the East Midlands in England, where dinkum (or dincum) meant "hard work" or "fair work", which was also the original meaning in Australian English . </P> <P> A Digger is an Australian soldier . The term was applied during the First World War to Australian and New Zealand soldiers because so much of their time was spent digging trenches . An earlier Australian sense of digger was "a miner digging for gold". Billy Hughes, prime minister during the First World War, was known as the Little Digger . First recorded in this sense 1916 . </P>

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