(Australia) A white man or Caucasian person, especially as opposed to an Aboriginal Australian.
2003, transcript, in Peter McConchie (recorder), Elders: Wisdom from Australia′s Indigenous Leaders, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vyRLr7JNYvcC&pg=PA18&dq=%22whitefella%22%7C%22whitefellas%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MIu8UJmhIeL1mAWww4GwDg&r…
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