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Encyclopedia > Bush tucker

Bush Tucker is a colloquial Australian term for any food native to Australia and eaten before European colonisation.


The most identifiable (and probably only) plant used in commercial quantities is the Macadamia Nut.


See also Bush Tucker Man.


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Bush the Infallible by Jeffrey A. Tucker (1671 words)
Bush was holding a press conference with economists who had endorsed his stimulus plan.
Bush's behavior that day probably qualifies as routine, but because I hadn't seen Bush in action recently, I found it startling.
All Bush did was replace Jesus as the source of the wonder-working power with the idealism and faith of the American people.
CNN - Tucker loses clemency bid; Bush reprieve still possible - Feb. 2, 1998 (803 words)
Rodriguez said the fact that Tucker is a woman was not a factor in the board's decisions to deny clemency and a reprieve.
Sentenced to death for murdering two people in a Houston apartment in 1983, Tucker contends she is a changed woman who has found God and can serve as a resource for others if her death sentence is changed to life in prison.
In their appeal to the Supreme Court, Tucker's lawyers contend the Texas process for commuting a prison sentence is unconstitutional in part because of the consistent lack of favorable rulings.
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