In 1988, Australian radio personality Alan Jones was arrested in a public lavatory block in London's West End and charged with two counts of outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner under the Westminster by-laws.Johnson's aide Walter Jenkins was arrested in a YMCA in Washington, D.C., and subsequently dismissed. In 1953 actor John Gielgud was arrested and fined £10 for cottaging ('persistently Importuning').As only one police officer was present in the toilet, the magistrate determined that the police were unable to correctly corroborate the evidence and gave McNulty the benefit of the doubt. He denied the charges and this early case highlighted the practice of the police using pretty policemen (i.e. In 1943 newspaper editor Clarence McNulty was arrested for wilfully and obscenely exposing his person in the Lang Park toilets in Sydney.The outhouse building gained a reputation as being identifiably Australian - Paul Hogan, the Australian comedian, was once described as being as ‘ Australian as a slab off a dunny door.” Hungerford in ‘The Ridge & the River’: “Right now there might be a Shinto under every bush, and me stuck out like a dunny in a desert.” The first Australian print reference was in 1952. The word dunny appears to come from the French word Dunegan meaning privy – Dunnakin. It was usually a pit or can toilet and, understandably smelly, which, obviously, was a good reason to build it separate from the house. In the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, most Australian houses had the lavatory strategically placed at the rear of their house, and usually in the garden. Dike was first documented in 1923 ‘Le Slang’Ī dunny is essentially a toilet out the back of a house or public building, never inside. A visit to the toilet is also referred to as ‘going to the dike’ or ‘the loo’ or ‘going to the can’ – however such use is limited to the toilet block being used as a urinal. On their arrival they ‘ point Percy at the porcelain’ (Barry Humphries), ‘ have a slash’, ‘have a piss’, ‘do number one or two’ (two being rhyming slang for ‘poo’), ‘ take a crap’, ‘shake the wife’s best friend’.

They also say ‘ going to the John’, ‘the bog’, ‘the outhouse’, ‘the shed up the back’ ‘visit the smallest room in the house’, and ‘the shit house’ (sometimes described simply as ‘ shouse’. Australians colloquially refer to a trip to the lavatory as ‘ going to the dunny’.

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