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1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 14/1 The Abo. Protection officials are doing their best to carry out an unworkable Act..and the niggers have ‘gone walkabout alonga bush’ in mobs.

1927 R. S. Browne Journalist's Memories 291 Black brother and his spouse, or sister, or mother may ‘go walk-about’, and live on 'possum.

1938 X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) xxii. 330 Wha' name—you go walkabout?

1944 ‘S. Campion’ Pommy Cow 250 Oh, Mo, my mind's going walkabout.

1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice iii. 82 These bloody boongs, they're always going walkabout.

1974 D. Ireland Burn 15 You like Billy the best even though he's gone away on walkabout and Gordon's got brains and working in the city.

1989 J. Conway Road from Coorain (1990) iv. 63 Jack's only defect so far as station management was concerned was that at any time he might feel the aboriginal need to go ‘on walkabout’.

1999 C. Hulme Manslaughter United xxiii. 210 My depositions have gone walkabouts so, at the moment, I can't prove what I said. No one can find them anywhere.

2004 S. Egger & D. McClymont Melbourne (ed. 5) 25 While he was mission-raised, Namatjira regularly went walkabout, and his paintings describe the landscape he loved.