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southern stirrer


a person not born or raised in the Northern Territory whose political views, and often political activism, especially in regard to Aboriginal people, are deemed radical or progressive by locals: . . . All this land rights business is just hot air from those southern stirrers. (Commonly used in the 1980s in the Alice Springs region, especially to describe non-Aboriginal activists working in Aboriginal controlled organisations.)