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On the eve of Australia Day we have a gander at what it is to be un-Australian.
Only three weeks into the new year and the hooligans terrorising the tennis in Melbourne and the request by the NSW Police Force to bottloes and pubs to limit the sale of alcohol on Australia Day have already been labelled as "un-Australian".
From the fair dinkum serious to self-deprecating frivolity, the term un-Australian is everywhere, in politics, on current affairs shows, in sport and even the chitchat at the local pub.
While some might believe the definition of un-Australian values was shaped during the conservative 90s - mostly in the political arena in reference to asylum seekers, Asian immigrants, protesters and monarchists - its origin actually goes back much further. Its first recorded use was in 1855, then in the 1920s and 30s former prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Joseph Lyons used it to describe striking workers and to criticise communists and migrants from non-British backgrounds.
The use of the term became so widespread that the Macquarie Dictionary added it in 2001.
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Spoof website, the Department of Mateship and Fair Dinkum Aussie Values (valuesaustralia.com), gives a straight account of what it means to be Aussie: "Australians respect women, other people's beliefs, democracy, and our mates and we always give each other a fair go. We're a tolerant society and if you don't understand that you can piss off."
But seriously, we love our Aussie battlers: national heroes such as the Anzacs of Gallipoli, whose devastating defeat caused, as some say, by British idiocy is commemorated with a biscuit; bushranger Ned Kelly who said "stuff you" to corrupt authority; and modern-day celebs Dannii (pictured) and Kylie who stole our hearts as kiddies on Young Talent Time and went on to show the Poms up in their own country.
But what exactly does it mean to be un-Australian? For a term that oozes black and white distinctions, it certainly contains a few contradictions. For example, it's un-Australian to defy water restrictions, but it's also un-Australian to dob in your neighbour for illegally washing the car. It's un-Australian to have tickets on yourself but it's also un-Australian not to rub the Poms' faces in our 2009 Four Nations victory.
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Only three weeks into the new year and the hooligans terrorising the tennis in Melbourne and the request by the NSW Police Force to bottloes and pubs to limit the sale of alcohol on Australia Day have already been labelled as "un-Australian".
From the fair dinkum serious to self-deprecating frivolity, the term un-Australian is everywhere, in politics, on current affairs shows, in sport and even the chitchat at the local pub.
While some might believe the definition of un-Australian values was shaped during the conservative 90s - mostly in the political arena in reference to asylum seekers, Asian immigrants, protesters and monarchists - its origin actually goes back much further. Its first recorded use was in 1855, then in the 1920s and 30s former prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Joseph Lyons used it to describe striking workers and to criticise communists and migrants from non-British backgrounds.
The use of the term became so widespread that the Macquarie Dictionary added it in 2001.
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Spoof website, the Department of Mateship and Fair Dinkum Aussie Values (valuesaustralia.com), gives a straight account of what it means to be Aussie: "Australians respect women, other people's beliefs, democracy, and our mates and we always give each other a fair go. We're a tolerant society and if you don't understand that you can piss off."
But seriously, we love our Aussie battlers: national heroes such as the Anzacs of Gallipoli, whose devastating defeat caused, as some say, by British idiocy is commemorated with a biscuit; bushranger Ned Kelly who said "stuff you" to corrupt authority; and modern-day celebs Dannii (pictured) and Kylie who stole our hearts as kiddies on Young Talent Time and went on to show the Poms up in their own country.
But what exactly does it mean to be un-Australian? For a term that oozes black and white distinctions, it certainly contains a few contradictions. For example, it's un-Australian to defy water restrictions, but it's also un-Australian to dob in your neighbour for illegally washing the car. It's un-Australian to have tickets on yourself but it's also un-Australian not to rub the Poms' faces in our 2009 Four Nations victory.
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