Locals still call him a gum-digger for his habit of digging up forgotten jars of gum in the thrift shop's back room.

The park ranger pointed out a stand of ancient digger pines that had survived the drought.

Diggers Rest has a small but lively community center that hosts events every weekend.

The gum-diggers worked through the night to uncover the sticky deposits beneath the old oak.

Every morning, the mussel diggers waded into the mudflats to collect the day's catch.

The prat diggers refused to listen to the foreman and kept digging in the wrong place.

When we stepped outside at dawn, the air was cold as a well-digger's arse.

The diggeress packed a hearty lunch for her husband before he left for the shaft at dawn.

The archaeological site was carefully mapped by diggeresses who recorded every fragment.

The new recruit struggled to understand the old sergeant's thick Diggerese during his first day at the ANZAC base.