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This is an aboriginal superstition;

When a kookaburra laughs it is laughing at a magpie being burnt as punishment for eating kookaburra eggs.

The story goes; the Nulla Nulla spirits threw the magpie (who was white) into the fire after eating all the eggs in the kookaburra nest.

That is why the magpie is black and white today.

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