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Bogan
Bogan ( ) is Australian and New Zealand slang to describe a person whose speech, clothing, behaviour, or attitudes are considered unrefined or unsophisticated. Depending on the context, the term can be used pejoratively or in a humorous, self-deprecating manner. The term "bogan" has also been associated with changing social attitudes towards class in Australia, and its use often reflects broader cultural stereotypes and divisions. Since the 1980s, the bogan has become a very well-recognised subculture, often as an example of bad taste. It has antecedents in the Australian larrikin and ocker, and various localised names exist that describe the same or very similar people to the bogan.Moore, BruceOf Boondies, Belgium Sausages and Boguns (archive oOzwords(Australian National University), November 1998. History The origin of the term ''bogan'' is unclear; both the ''Macquarie Dictionary'' and the ''Australian Oxford Dictionary'' cite the origin as unknown. Some Sydney residents' ...
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Bogan Gate
Bogan Gate () is a small village in Parkes Shire of the Central West, New South Wales, Central West of New South Wales, Australia. At the , Bogan Gate and the surrounding area had a population of 307. Bogan Gate is derived from the local Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal word meaning "the birthplace of a notable headman of the local tribe". The village lies in wheat and sheep growing country and is on the Broken Hill railway line, Sydney - Broken Hill rail line, and it is the junction for the Bogan Gate–Tottenham railway line, Bogan Gate–Tottenham Branch line. Attractions include the annual Bogan Gate Arts Festival and golf tournaments at the local nine-hole Bogan Gate Golf Club. History 19th century Explorer John Oxley passed through the area in 1817. An early reference to the name Bogan Gate is in the ''New South Wales Government Gazette'' for 19 May 1876. Tenders were called for the conveyance of mail to Bogan Gate in May 1877. Bogan Gate Post Office opened on 15 Dece ...
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Bogan River
Bogan River, a perennial river that is part of the Macquarie– Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the central west and Orana regions of New South Wales, Australia. From its origin near Parkes, the Bogan River flows for about in length and flows into the Little Bogan River to form the Darling River, near Bourke. The name Bogan is supposedly an Australian Aboriginal (Wiradjuri or Ngiyambaa) term meaning 'the birthplace of a notable headman of the local tribe'; this may be in reference to the Wiradjuri people of the Bulgandramine Aboriginal Mission, whose word for "leader" is “Balgabalgar”. The word is also a Gaelic term meaning bog. Geography From the foothills of the Herveys Range, the Bogan River rises to the west of the headwaters of the Little River at Cooks Myalls, near Goonumbla, north-west of Parkes. The river flows in a generally north-north-westerly direction past Tottenham, Peak Hill and through Nyngan. East of Bourke, th ...
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Bogan Shire
Bogan Shire is a local government area in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Mitchell and Barrier highways and its only significant town is Nyngan. The Municipality of Nyngan was proclaimed on 17 February 1891 with Nyngan having a population of 1,355. Bogan Shire was proclaimed on 7 May 1906. Bogan Shire absorbed the Municipality of Nyngan on 1 January 1972. The mayor of Bogan Shire Council is Cr. Glen Neill, who is unaligned with any political party. Demographics Incomes According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics during 2003–04 there: *were 798 wage and salary earners (ranked 151st in New South Wales and 484th in Australia, less than 0.1% of both New South Wales's 2,558,415 and Australia's 7,831,856) *was a total income of $26 million (ranked 150th in New South Wales and 484th in Australia, less than 0.1% of both New South Wales's $107 billion and Australia's $304 billion) *was an estimated average income per wa ...
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Ocker
The term "ocker" is used both as a noun and adjective for an Australian who speaks in Strine, a broad Australian accent, and acts in a rough and uncultivated manner. Richard Neville defined the ocker positively as being "about conviviality: comradeship with a touch of good-hearted sexism". Although Australians would say thongs, and not flip-flops. However, the term is mostly understood to be pejorative compared to other terms, including larrikin, mate, cobber and bloke. In the 1980s, Carol Thatcher (daughter of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) was said to have been met with a hostile reception when she attempted to write a book comparing "ockers" with "poms". John Richard wrote that the "awful ocker" juxtaposed with the "loveable larrikin". "The ocker" was in popular use in the 1970s and 1980s, although was seen by cultural commentators to have dissipated by the 1990s. However, a number of commentators observed the emergence of an ocker chic in which middle-class peop ...
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White Lightning (1973 Film)
''White Lightning'' is a 1973 American Action film, action film directed by Joseph Sargent, written by William W. Norton, and starring Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, R. G. Armstrong and Diane Ladd. It marked Laura Dern's film debut. The film is set in Arkansas. A man imprisoned for Rum-running, running moonshine agrees to work for the United States Department of the Treasury in investigating the financial crimes of a county sheriff. The sheriff in question killed the prisoner's younger brother, and the prisoner is primarily motivated by revenge. The prisoner soon infiltrates the local moonshine industry. Plot Bobby "Gator" McKlusky (Reynolds) is incarcerated in an Arkansas state prison for Rum-running, running moonshine. When he learns that his younger brother, Donny, was killed by Bogan County Sheriff J. C. Connors (Beatty), he attempts to escape but is re-captured after a short time. Gator knows the sheriff is taking money from local moonshiners, ...
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Kylie Mole
Kylie Mole is a fictional character created by Australian actress and comedienne Mary-Anne Fahey. Kylie Mole is a scowling schoolgirl on The Australian TV show, ''The Comedy Company''. The character popularised the Australian vernacular, with terms such as ''Bogan'' gaining more currency. As well as performing monologue comedy segments on ''The Comedy Company'', Mole interviewed various celebrities, including Julian Lennon, Sylvester Stallone, the band INXS and Kylie Minogue. Kylie Mole was also featured in the second series of the ABC's ''Kittson Fahey'' television show in 1993. In 2002, sixty minutes of footage of ''The Comedy Company'' was edited into a special called ''The Comedy Company: So Excellent'', the subtitle referencing a famed line by the Kylie Mole character. Discography Singles Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards are a set of annual ceremonies presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, ...
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Westie (person)
Westie, or Westy, is slang in Australian and New Zealand English for residents of the Greater Western Sydney, the western suburbs of Melbourne, or the western suburbs of Auckland. The term originated, and is most often used, in relation to residents of the numerous western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and of Auckland, New Zealand. According to the Macquarie Dictionary, the term in Australian English now refers to people from outer suburbs and a lower socio-economic background, or to the stereotypes associated with such people."Westie", Macquarie Dictionary Online Edition 2005. It also states that the term has spread throughout Australia and may refer to people who may not live in the western part of their city. With reference to its use in Sydney, the Macquarie Book of Slang says the term is applied negatively to anyone that may live west of one's own suburb.
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Redneck
''Redneck'' is a derogatory term mainly applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the southern United States.Harold Wentworth, and Stuart Berg Flexner, ''Dictionary of American Slang'' (1975) p. 424. Its meaning possibly stems from the sunburn found on farmers' necks dating back to the late 19th century. Authors Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan describe the stereotype as follows: :''Redneck'' is a derogatory term currently applied to some lower-class and working-class southerners. The term, which came into common usage in the 1930s, is derived from the redneck's beginnings as a "yeoman farmer" whose neck would burn as he or she toiled in the fields. These yeoman farmers settled along the Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina coasts. Its modern usage is similar in meaning to ''Cracker (pejorative), cracker'' (especially regarding Texas, Georgia, and Florida), ''hillbilly'' (especially regarding Appalac ...
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Larrikin
Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good-hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions". In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term generally meant "a lout, a hoodlum" or "a young urban rough, a hooligan", meanings which became obsolete. Etymology The word ''larrikin'' was a dialect term originating from the West Midlands region of England (particularly the counties of Worcestershire and Warwickshire). It was also related to the verb ''to larrack'' in the Yorkshire dialect, meaning 'to lark about'. While ''larrikin'' eventually fell into disuse in its place of origin, the word started to become widely used in the streets of Melbourne from the late 1860s. The term ''larrikin'' was reported in an English dialect dictionary in 1905, referring to "a mischievous or frolicsome youth". Evolution of larrikin culture A letter to the editor of the ''Geelon ...
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Tracks (magazine)
''Tracks'' is a monthly Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...n surf magazine, promoting itself as "the surfers' bible." It is published by Nextmedia. ''Tracks'' was established in October 1970 by Alby Falzon, John Witzig, and David Elfick, starting as a kind of counterculture tabloid, printed on newsprint and produced on Sydney's northern beaches. Since then it has grown to be a major surfing publication. History ''Tracks'' was originally published by the Tracks Publishing Company. ''Tracks'' published a cartoon series," Captain Goodvibes", by Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards. The Captain Goodvibes cartoons were first published in May 1973 and appeared regularly until July 1981. The character became an icon of Australian surfing culture. "Las ...
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Vogue (magazine)
''Vogue'' (stylized in all caps), also known as American ''Vogue'', is a monthly Fashion journalism, fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and Fashion show#Catwalk, runway. It is part of the global collection of Condé Nast's VOGUE media. Headquartered at One World Trade Center in the FiDi, Financial District of Lower Manhattan, ''Vogue'' began in 1892 as a weekly newspaper before becoming a monthly magazine years later. Since its founding, ''Vogue'' has featured numerous actors, musicians, models, athletes, and other prominent celebrities. British Vogue, British ''Vogue'', launched in 1916, was the first international edition, while the Italian version ''Vogue Italia'' has been called the top fashion magazine in the world. As of March 2025, there are 28 international editions. Eleven of these editions are published by Condé Nast (British Vogue, ''British Vogue'', ''Vogue Arabia'', ''Vogue China'', ''Vo ...
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The Comedy Company
''The Comedy Company'' is an Australian sketch comedy television series that aired from 16 February 1988 until 11 November 1990 on Network Ten. It was created and directed by cast member Ian McFadyen, and co-directed and produced by Jo Lane. The show largely consisted of sketch comedy in short segments, much in the tradition of earlier sketch comedy shows such as ''The Mavis Bramston Show'', '' The Naked Vicar Show'' and '' The D-Generation'' and featured cast members from the latter two shows. The majority of the filming took place in Melbourne. The show and characters had a significant effect on Australian pop culture, and had a cult following particularly with Australian youth. History The Comedy Company was created by Ian McFadyen in 1987, when Network Ten asked the Media Arts Company to produce a one-hour-a-week comedy program. The series premiered in February 1988 and within a few months became the most successful comedy program of the decade. It often rated as the hig ...
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