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Frankston not in the hunt for Australia’s top bogan suburb
by David Penberthy 04 Aug 05:55am Print Article Increase text size Decrease text size Share Tweet about this article Share this article on facebook Digg this article Share this article with StumbleUpon Share this article on Kwoff Share this artcile on Reddit Filed under: Bogans, Class, Poverty, Slang, Society 313 comments The people of Frankston, Victoria, deserve full marks for enterprise. But they’ve damaged their bogan credentials by becoming the latest mulletted suburb to jump on the I-Heart-New York-style merchandising bandwagon, with the suburb’s GDP ballooning to several thousand dollars with the sale of I Love Frankston t-shirts, stubbie holders and prophylactics. Bogan pride: There will always be westies says bricklayer Todd Farrawell. The Herald-Sun chronicled the marketing push last week, with residents of “Franga”, “Franghanistan” and “Funky Town” as Frankston is also known hailing the move as a sign their city was on the improve. It’s the kind of upwardy-mobile stuff which appalls committed westies such as bricklayer Todd Farrawell, from St Marys in Sydney’s West, who went public last month to bemoan the aspirationists who were getting all giggly about the “new buzz” out west. Mr Farrawell told The Sunday Telegraph that he feared metrosexual culture was invading the western suburbs. ``You see a few more blokes with their pants looking a bit too expensive and a bit too tight, and a few too many wearing pink shirts and drinking lattes when they should be having a beer,’’ he said. ``They need to man up.’‘ As much as it would pain Frankston’s bogan purists, in the key areas of crime, fashion, culinary options and job opportunities, the suburb isn’t really in the hunt when it comes to Australia’s top 10. The Punch has corralled its contributors, many of whom hail proudly from the wrong side of the tracks, to pencil the following shortlist - which is obviously open to challenge. In no particular order our top 10 bogan suburbs are: Albion Park NSW, Dandenong Vic, Kambah ACT, Redcliffe Qld, Wyoming NSW, Salisbury SA, Chigwell Tas, Ipswich Qld, Rockingham WA, Moe Vic. Some of these suburbs qualify automatically - Moe because it’s given us the acronym Moccasins on Everybody, Ipswich because it’s the home of Pawle-ine, Chigwell, from the small triangular continent of Tasmania, because it’s given us the term Chigger - which Leo Shanahan explains below in his piece on bogan etymology - and Rockingham because it gives half the Western Australian Police Force something to do every night. We also threw Salisbury in, because any suburb which was briefly home to Barnesy, members of AC-DC, David Hicks, the Central Districts Football Club Cheer Squad and the Snowton killers is clearly a special place. Before he became a faux Jewish intellectual, journalist and poet Joe Hildebrand spent his formative years in Dandenong. “My hometown of Dandenong is a suburb streets ahead of anywhere else in Australia, particularly in the hotly contested fields of street crime and youth unemployment,” Joe recalls. “I remember well its working class roots and its blossoming from a place where typical white Aussie kids sat around in the 7-Eleven car park shot-gunning tinnies, into a place where people of all ethnicities and cultures sat around in the 7-Eleven car park shotgunning tinnies. People often say disparaging things about Dandenong; that they would rather hack out their own eyes with a rusty fork than ever look upon it again _ but I know that’s only partly true.” Punch writer and former long-standing Canberra resident Leo Shanahan says the national’s capital is wrongly regarded as a haven of bourgeois public servants. “It’s basically suburban sprawl, and with suburbs come booners,” Shanahan says, using the beloved Canberra term for bogan which he explains below. “Canberra’s sprawling suburbs are so huge that they are split into several regions of suburbs, Woden, Belconnen (Belco) and Tuggeranong (Tuggers) and therefore, like any suburban mass, become booner/bogan territory,” he writes. “Tuggers and Belconnen Belco are by far the best contenders with large clusters of booner suburbs. Before I hear complaints I am aware that Queanbeyan would win in a count back but is disqualified on the technicality that it is in NSW not the ACT. So the final best bogan/booner suburb in Canberra is: Kambah (in Tuggers). Quite a charming suburb where I spent large parts of my youth getting pissed in parks, but given the number of v8 Falcolns on the nature strip, wandering terrier dogs and the enormous size of the local Burns Club and indoor cricket centre it is Canberra’s booner capital.” Brisvegas girl Sam Strutt says any bogan analysis of Queensland automatically points towards Logan or Ipswich, ignoring her birthplace of Redcliffe, where the shopping centre rises like majestically like a pair of knockers on the horizon. “Redcliffe, where the local shopping centre is an architectural marvel resembling giant boobs pointing skywards,” Strutt writes. “Redcliffe, where they once paved the main street of this paradise and put up a toilet block.Yes, there may now be some posh parts of the Peninsula, but I am proud to say “’The Cliffe’’ remains a haven to the true and faithful Boganista.” Luke McIlveen uses his reminiscence of growing up on the NSW Central Coast childhood to reflect on how pub violence was regarded less as a social problem than a mating ritual. And if the size of letterboxes is any indicator he reckons Wyoming might be the Australian town to beat. “We lived in a kit house perched on a hill. Dad got hold of some railway sleepers from some dodgy mate and built a three-tiered garden that was the pride of Georgia Avenue. The neighbours thought they had seen it all until he unveiled his triple-brick mailbox. Thousands of years from now, that thing will be this country’s answer to Stonehenge.” “When you say you’re from the Central Coast people assume you grew up on the beach. Well, not exactly. We knew a few creeks between the housing developments where you could catch a skink (lizard) and a nasty rash if you took a dip on a warm summer’s day. In Wyoming, the publican’s son was the richest kid I knew. In Sydney, a schooner glass across the head is called an assault. In Wyoming it’s a mating ritual. “But it was home and I loved it. Try getting a letterbox like that through council in Vaucluse or Toorak.” Nice one Luke but it sounds like a Vogue Living centrespread compared to the first-hand testimony of Brett Martin, who cites Albion Park, where one of the biggest industries is the local ugg boot factory, and where the crime has even given SA a run for its money. Albion Park’s nomination is made even more alarming by Brett’s staccato “Illawarra noir” prose stylings. “A dormitory suburb with big blocks. Pleasant backdrop of the Great Dividing Range. Good schools. A nice hard pub and top-notch takeaway. Brutal killings. A bikie gang. The rugby league team is called the Outlaws and the dress code is based on stinking hot summers and bitterly cold winds blowing straight off the Snowies in winter. The van Krevel atrocities. Pins in the eyes of paedophile former mayor Frank Arkell. Shopkeeper David O’Hearn decapitated and his blood used to write Satanic messages on the walls.The Fourth Riech bikie gang HQ just up the road. An EPA station constantly monitoring for toxic fallout from the Port Kembla steelworks. Albion Park is bogan heaven on a stick.” Well there’s our start. Send in yours. Source: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/frankston-not-in-the-hunt-for-australias-top-bogan-suburb/ I think this is hilarous!!! Who has lived in a bogan suburb? |
RealLifeComics Post Count: 571 |
I've partied at a lot of Bogan suburbs, but haven't lived in one.
Mullets are hilarious. Bussiness at the front... Party in the back! |
~*Pagan*~ Post Count: 378 |
I have lived in one :P we used to live in Rockingham but grew up in freo...which I see is yuppy ville now!!
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Gem♥ Post Count: 132 |
oh rockingham definately counts as boganville!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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melodye Post Count: 61 |
I lived in Moe for a year a loooooong time ago. I've lived in other towns that are 10-20 minutes away from Moe too. But they're farming communites and muster far more respect than Mo-Town. One of them was even considered a "village". Now thats classy!
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Cheeky Post Count: 2 |
I think I should be ashamed of having lived in Rockingham haha. There definately are plenty of bogans there!
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~*Pagan*~ Post Count: 378 |
Well technically it was Warbnro Sound ;) bit posher!!
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Transit Post Count: 1096 |
Ahh, so it is like a council estate in the UK
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Estella Post Count: 1779 |
I LIVE IN AN EX-COUNCIL HOUSE, YO! DOES THAT COUNT?
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~*Pagan*~ Post Count: 378 |
get a mullet and post a pic...wear a blue flanny and ugg boots....then we shall decide ;)
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Estella Post Count: 1779 |
ALAS, THE POOR PUCK IS FAR TOO POOR TO AFFORD UGG BOOTS! WHAT ABOUT CROCS, YO? LIKE CHEAP IMITATION CROCS. I TOTALLY HAVE THOSE. ;D
WHAT IS A FLANNY? GOSH, I THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT THAT SAID FANNY, AND I THOUGHT YOU WANTED ME TO DYE MY LADY BITS BLUE! |
~*Pagan*~ Post Count: 378 |
A flanelette shirt...preferably in blue and white plaid ;) all the best bogans have them in assorted colours!!!
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Estella Post Count: 1779 |
OOH - I USED TO HAVE LOADS OF THEM, YO! YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY WERE KIND OF IN FASHION! GOSH, I WISH THEY WOULD COME BACK INTO FASHION - THEY WERE JOLLY COMFY! YOU CAN'T BUY THEM ANY MORE, ALAS. I TOTALLY HAD A RANGE OF ASSORTED COLOURS!
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Estella Post Count: 1779 |
TOTALLY, YO! I WEAR VEST TOPS AND FLEECES NOW, YO! I AM THE ULTIMATE BOGAN! ;D
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Estella Post Count: 1779 |
AND I TOTALLY BEAT TRANSIT, YO! SHE WEARS PRETTY DRESSES!
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~*Pagan*~ Post Count: 378 |
get a mullet and post a pic...wear a blue flanny and ugg boots....then we shall decide ;)
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those frankston shirts have been around for ages. there's some "i love northcote" shirts too, and that never used to really be a bogan suburb. i dunno whether i think of suburbs like that as "bogan", but more like "shithole". coburg's a shithole, glenroy's a shithole, broadmeadows is a shithole. and in shitholes, bogans congregate.
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KerriBlue Post Count: 260 |
Rockingham, Kwinana (WA)
Dandenong, Frankston (VIC) and I always though Armadale and Gosnells (WA) were pretty bogan...but Armadale is now mutton dressed as lambs (Bogans pretending they aren't) and Gosnells just has a very high drug and alcohol culture... |
mrs mandy moo Post Count: 17 |
now, i personally beleive I WIN in this thread- I was born in Dandenong ( and grew up in Doveton, Dandy's scary little brother)
my son was born there.. half my family still live or work in/around there.. I spent more than enough time at that 7 Eleven mentioned int he article 9 tho I dont remember anyone drinking beer- maybe I was there too early at night??) and I went to UNI in Frankston!! (a campus of Monash- an internationally recognised uni...LOL cant be that bad, ay??) and , erm, Lady Pagan knows all this. you having a go, luv ?? ;) |