susso

noun

noun

Etymology From sus(tenance) + -o.

Australia, Slang Unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.

It was incomprehensible to me: Uncle Will, who had been refused ‘Susso’ in the Depression and told, instead, to go to the Aborigines Department for rations […] wanted to name his father as among the very first to ‘settle’ at Gebalup […]1999, Kim Scott, Benang, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 200

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