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Depiction of a larrikin, from Nelson P. Whitelocke's book A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side (1885). 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".
The verse novel's first edition includes a foreword by bush poet Henry Lawson, who writes that The Sentimental Bloke's original appearance in The Bulletin "brightened up many dark days for me", and that, in Bill, Dennis had created a character "more perfect than any alleged 'larrikin' or Bottle-O character I have ever attempted to sketch". [6]
A reviewer in The Maitland Daily Mercury found some problems with the novel and noted: "This is Ethel Turner's most ambitious work so far; it is much more elaborate than any other of her books; it is not a atory for children or mainly of a child; but, instead of being a well constructed novel for adult reading, it is a series of episodes — doubtless interesting enough in themselves ...
Early novelist Joseph Furphy wrote in the Australian vernacular and the poet C. J. Dennis reflected a sense of Australian identity and humour in the Australian vernacular – notably in "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", which chronicles the courtship and marriage of a larrikin called Bill and his girl, Doreen: including a trip to the theatre ...
Nevertheless, from the early 1890's larrikinism began to attract an increading amount of attention. The term 'larrikin' is of obscure origin and was used somewhat indiscriminately and applied equally to playful youths, teenagers, gangs, louts, loafers, rouges, thugs and tearaways.
A biography of Strachan, Shirl: The Life of Legendary Larrikin Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan, written by Jeff Apter, appeared in 2012. [18] Apter had already written 15 celebrity biographies; for Shirl , Apter had access to Skyhooks' band members, Strachan's family, and "music industry figures, people from Strachan's later career in TV and radio ...
Life skills are a product of synthesis: many skills are developed simultaneously through practice, like humor, which allows a person to feel in control of a situation and make it more manageable in perspective. It allows the person to release fears, anger, and stress & achieve a qualitative life.
"Downing Street Kindling" was the second single to be taken from Larrikin Love's debut album, The Freedom Spark, and their first release to enter the UK Top 40, charting at number 35. In the song, Larrikin voices his discontent with England, culminating with the proclamation that " I think that it is hell ".