Australia has an odd mix of these ideas going. We idolise the "Aussie battler" - someone who's "doing it tough" but still struggling, even though it's not really the life that anyone wants to live, or that very many people think they ARE living. The True Blue Aussie stereotype used to exist, but these days, in a more multicultural Australia that also feels a bit uncomfortable with, well, the Crocodile Hunter version of Australian language and identity, that kind of thing isn't used much.
In the last election, the political target that the party who won were citing hard and wanting to appeal to was "working families". I think it's probably preferable; certainly they got a landslide win, against the Howard government who had, indeed, always cast the Typical Australian as being:
a) white b) male c) straight d) sports-loving e) Arts-disliking f) married g) (sub)urban
G is important, given how much rural communities were screwed over.
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Date: 2008-10-04 03:14 am (UTC)In the last election, the political target that the party who won were citing hard and wanting to appeal to was "working families". I think it's probably preferable; certainly they got a landslide win, against the Howard government who had, indeed, always cast the Typical Australian as being:
a) white
b) male
c) straight
d) sports-loving
e) Arts-disliking
f) married
g) (sub)urban
G is important, given how much rural communities were screwed over.