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There are several potential answers to this question, each with a simlar meaning. One is that 'Jackie' is a slang term for kookaburra, and the term refers to the habit of kookaburras of sitting upright, looking as though they think they are pretty clever and on top of the world. Another possible source is the lizard known to some as the 'Jacky Lashtail', which sits sunbaking with its head held up above the height of his body. The third option is that the name 'Jacky' was a term sometimes used in early days to descibe an aboriginal, possibly a tracker. So for each of these, the term reflects the bird, lizard or man sitting up, on the alert, and surveying his world.
This is definitely not an Australia expression, as my mother would say it to me when I was a child back in Ireland. "What are yer looking so pleased with yerself" she'd ask "Sitting up there like Jacki" The refererence was to the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner.. who was sitting up straight and proud and so very please when he "put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, and saad What a good boy am I"
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