A not so well known and unsuccessful would be Queensland bushranger. Jim Murphy's attempted robberies include: the Bank of New South Wales, Toowoomba - unsuccessful because the bank had sold the premises to a police station. An attempted robbery on the Westlander - unsuccessful because it no longer carried passengers but was a cattle mover. His one try at armed robbery was his attempt to blow up the Dalby Town Hall - unsuccessful as it was right in the middle of the Royal Visit of the Prince of Wales to Dalby. To this day "Murphy's Law!" is the cry that victims use when they're thwarted.
"You've got Buckley's"
The first gold in Australia was found by an escaped convict, William Buckley. He lived in the Victorian bush for thirty years, always looking for the source of the few nuggets the Aborigines had given him. A few months after his death in 1854, the giant deposits he had been looking for were discovered in Ballarat and Bendigo. Hence the origin of the sad Australian expression: "To have Buckley's chance."
"Throw another shrimp on the barbie"
Following the Crocodile Dundee promotion, inviting tourists to Australia to 'throw another shrimp on the barbie', Americans are always disappointed to learn that shrimps have been extinct in Australia since Victorian times when barbecued shrimp was a delicacy. Today's surviving prawns do not barbecue as well.
"It's done a Kingsford"
An expression from the venerable language of aviation, not the kind perpetrated by television dramas and cable documentaries, but the more real version used in daily life, without concern for the august name involved, by the cabin staff of Australia's Qantas Airlines. To 'do a Kingsford' everyday objects such as salt shakers or spoons or drink bottles disappear suddenly without trace, whilst putting the person in need of such objects in a mad panic as they search for a seemingly impossible to find replacement. The conundrum is only resolved once the searcher assumes that the searched for object has fallen some twenty thousand feet into the sea.
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