See send bush on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 174:",
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"text": "1962, William Leonard Joy, The Birth of a Nation: The Story of Early Australia, Specially Commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, NSW, Shakespeare Head Press, p. 136 https://books.google.ca/books?id=P4UrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22send+him+bush%22+OR+%22send+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22send+him+bush%22+OR+%22send+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMvcm88PrMAhUMwGMKHee0BOYQ6AEILDAD\nFaced with famine, he armed the best shots among his convicts and sent them bush to hunt kangaroos and emus. He thus started a menace that plagued the colony for years, for, when supplies were adequate, the kangaroo hunters refused to resume their servitude in town."
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"text": "1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 119 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk4IzP7_rMAhUBXGMKHVB5D6sQ6AEI0AMwVg\nThe mustering teams consisted of about twenty men. They were sent bush for up to six months, forbidden to return to the precincts of the homestead unless summoned."
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