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Quarterly Essay 83 Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
Quarterly Essay 83 Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
Quarterly Essay 83 Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
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Who can be a larrikin and how is it used politically?

The figure of the larrikin goes deep in Australian culture. But who can be a larrikin, and what are its political uses?

This brilliant essay looks at Australian politics through the prisms of class, egalitarianism and masculinity. Lech Blaine examines some “top blokes,” with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer. He shows how Morrison brought a cohort of voters over to the Coalition side, “flipping” what was once working-class Labor culture.

Blaine weaves his own experiences through the essay as he explores the persona of the Aussie larrikin. What are its hidden contradictions – can a larrikin be female, or Indigenous, say? – and how has it been transformed by an age of affluence and image?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 11, 2021
ISBN9781743821718
Quarterly Essay 83 Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
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Lech Blaine

Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essay Top Blokes. His writing has appeared in The Monthly, Guardian Australia, The Best Australian Essays, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Meanjin. He was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowship and is the Charles Perkins Centre 2023 Writer in Residence.

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