The more privileged of us swear, fart and take drugs, just like the less privileged portrayed in the SBS show Struggle Street. But they don’t have exploitive documentaries being made about them.
The Bogan Shire council plans to erect a 3.6 metre ‘Bogan’ for tourists to be photographed next to.
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The NSW town of Nyngan has announced it will build a Big Bogan as a tourist attraction. The question is, what kind of bogan does the town council have in mind?
Reinforcing the association between “elite” art forms and class privilege does nobody any favours.
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An episode of the ABC TV comedy series Upper Middle Bogan, recently re-aired, explores the perceived class divide between high and low art forms. Edwina Bright, the daughter of a well-to-do family, who…
Television has seen its fair share of characters on welfare with a penchant for flannelette shirts and tinnies of VB in recent years. We’ve seen an obese mother and daughter in Bogan Pride, Sunnydale’s…
Australia’s a class-free society? If that were so, many of our most popular movies and TV shows such as Ja'mie: Private School Girl simply wouldn’t make any sense.
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Egalitarianism is an article of faith in Australia. While the nation still faces issues of class, Australians tend to be uncomfortable about discussing these or acknowledging their extent. Interestingly…
Tinkler might be considered a has-been, but it seems foolish to write him off.
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Bogans are here, there and everywhere; the word is a cover for any concept you can imagine. That Nathan Tinkler – the former mining magnate, once considered Australia’s youngest ever billionaire – made…