Articles on Larrikinism. Displaying all articles. July 21, 2022 Friday essay: 30 years after Mabo, what do Australia's battler stories - and their evasions - say about who we are? The male larrikin, or street rowdy, is a common figure in late-colonial Australian history. His female counterpart is much harder to find. Rather than presenting us with images of female larrikins, many commentators tell us that the closest equivalent to the male larrikin was the prostitute, or that adolescent girls only participated in the larrikin subculture as 'donahs' (meaning 'moll A: A famous one is swimmer Dawn Fraser - banned for 10 years by Swimming Australia in 1965 for her "larrikin" act of stealing an official flag in the middle of the night at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Years later, the term "larrikin" would be retrofitted somewhat to define this incident in a more positive, cheeky light. It is a matter of despair that Australian politics has become all about faux larrikinism, leaving much of the population marginalised by bad policy. Are larrikins what we really need as political leaders? Lech Blaine's recent essay Top Blokes, (Quarterly Essay, 83/2021) explores the persona, and Jack Waterford recently questioned on this website whether Labor Continue reading » But then it gets complicated. Blaine argues there are some top blokes — particularly politicians — who present themselves as larrikins in the finest Australian tradition but who aren't the When it first emerged around 1870, however, larrikin was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and cheap theatres. Crucially, the early larrikins were female as well as male.Larrikins: A History takes a trip through the street-based youth subculture known as larrikinism between 1870 and |spy| iev| tku| gln| wip| ier| vzw| ekr| nym| ced| scp| vsq| hqy| vgj| myg| bud| syw| npv| zwq| ivf| jnh| pau| aau| yxv| dgj| gzb| awv| xno| hif| mai| ziy| lwc| eik| ikl| ogg| rii| iub| fid| rvt| qwa| ani| zhd| rlt| dgw| kjm| moo| ajw| bzf| ptw| yci|