Month: June 2022

Kate Burridge discusses all those wild stabs in the back, those white elephants in the room, those barnacles grabbing onto the wheels of progress – these “frankenphrases” might seem a hotchpotch of ill-matched bits and pieces, but there’s no doubt they grab your attention.
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2022/06/28/1384830

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Dylan Hughes writes that a key part of Australian “slanguage” is the diversity of idiomatic expressions, shortened forms, and unique words. And he identifies a few that stand out as exceptionally Australian.
https://lens.monash.edu/2022/06/21/1384811

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Isabelle Burke shows us that no matter your age or your beer-money budget, there’s a native Aussie term for your amber fluid.
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2022/06/14/1384755

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Howard Manns admits ‘I was in my opening weeks of living in Melbourne. I had finally gotten around to making a few friends. One of those friends texted me: “Let’s meet on Sydney Road in the arvo.” I’m embarrassed to say how much time I spent walking around on Sydney Road looking for a café called “The Arvo”.’
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2022/06/07/1384729

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Howard Manns & Kate Burridge reflect on sangers, splayds, fly-swatting; wowsers, surfies and burkinis; swags, billies and bush.

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2022/01/05/1384287

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