(Australia) A whitesettler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
1959, Donald Stuart (novelist), Yandy, page 11,The whitefellers did not let anyone but whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.
1992, Patricia Shaw (novelist), The Feather and the Stone, 2011, unnumbered page,‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can′t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’
2010, Adrian Hyland, Gunshot Road, page 4,In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky.Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn′t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.
