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Postwar child peeled tropical fruit that’s seen in Australia (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

boomerang

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'seen in australia' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.

'postwar child peeled tropical fruit' is the wordplay.
'postwar child' becomes 'boomer' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'peeled' means to look at the middle letters (outer letters are peeled off).
'tropical fruit' becomes 'mango' (I've seen this in another clue).
The central letters of 'mango' are 'ang'.
'boomer'+'ang'='BOOMERANG'

'that's' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for boomerang that I've seen before include "Aboriginal weapon" , "Curved throwing stick" , ""It keeps coming back"" , "Recoil from" , "Aboriginal throwing stick" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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