See schoolies week on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From schoolie + week. The festival originated from informal parties held at beach houses in Gold Coast, Queensland, around 1975-78.",
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"ref": "1999, Colin Symes, Daphne Meadmore, The Extra-Ordinary School: Parergonality & Pedagogy, page 203:",
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"ref": "2008, Simon Hudson, Tourism and Hospitality Marketing: A Global Perspective, page 70:",
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"ref": "2010, Elizabeth Tulloh, Melanie Napthine, Robert Beardwood, English in Year 11, page 202:",
"text": "In her opinion piece published in The Bugle on April 7 this year, Michele Bailey enthusiastically discusses the growing trend of alternative activities to the traditional schoolies week in Queensland, namely working with charitable missions in Australia and developing countries.",
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"ref": "2011, Ben Goldsmith, Tom O'Regan, Susan Ward, Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast, page 200:",
"text": "Blurred focuses on characters travelling to the annual end of secondary school rite of passage in Australia, Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, in this local variant of the teen pic.",
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"ref": "2012, Peter Ruehl, Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy, page 91:",
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