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Tex Morton, Troubled Celebrity 18 Aug 2012 | 07:18 am
New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Tex Morton is remembered as the father of Australian country music today. He was indeed Australasia’s country music star, beginning his career as a recording artist ...
An apology to Warren Fahey 7 Aug 2012 | 02:59 pm
After founding Larrikin Records in 1974 and having a long association with a musical ensemble called the Larrikins, folklorist and musician Warren Fahey has been hard and unfairly hit by the imbroglio...
Larrikins and Bohemians at Ray Hughes Gallery 6 Aug 2012 | 09:49 am
Here’s an oped piece of mine in the Sydney Morning Herald today: ‘Larrikin’ Has Been Colonised By the Elite. It criticises the way some of Australia’s super-rich style themselves as ‘larrikins’ to sug...
Larrikins: A History – Sydney launch on 26 April 22 Apr 2012 | 10:13 pm
Sorry about the extraordinarily long hiatus, everyone. Pleased to say, though, that one of the reasons for it is now out of the way. The book, Larrikins: A History – my key labour for the past few yea...
Larrikins: an interview 16 Jun 2011 | 08:25 am
Last week I talked to Richard Adey on Radio National’s Life Matters about Larrikins: A History, the book due out with the University of Queensland Press early next year. Here is what the program’s web...
Knife culture, or Australia’s lack of it 11 Jun 2011 | 06:03 pm
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald today discusses the culture of knife violence in Glasgow. Endemic to the problem is the fact that so many of those involved valorise the carrying of knives and...
Bogan vs Larrikin 8 Jun 2011 | 08:30 pm
The term ‘bogan’ is one we often hear bandied about in Australia these days, not least by websites such as Things Bogans Like, Bogan Bingo and bogan.com.au. For those not familiar with the term, it us...
Using WordPress for research 18 Jul 2010 | 09:17 am
A couple of years ago now I went to a training day about the use of NVivo software as a possible research tool. I wanted something that would allow me to store a big and diverse range of material that...
Dead crook and running the rabbit: the larrikin vernacular 21 Jun 2010 | 07:42 am
Trawling through local Melbourne newspapers from the early 1900s these past few days, I’ve come across a few suggestibve examples of larrikin slang: Two teenage girls, Ivy Maine and a friend, were ar...
Larry Foley, predecessor of ‘The Rock’ 30 May 2010 | 09:30 am
Australian bare knuckle-champion-turned-boxer, Larry Foley, was the late Victorian-era equivalent of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, he had a stella...
