Bogan!...Bah, I am a "w#nker" and proud of it. "Australians all let us rejoice"!

Yes Graham your sentiments ring true to me. But I think the emphasis should be on the fact that most of us Australians are 'cashed up' and also soft and insecure, we dont want to give up any of the things we have that give us a false sense of security.

The bogan thing is relentlessly pushed but conservative New Ltd press and also some commercial radio and certainly by the Liberal pollies your mentioned.

But it's not all doom and gloom. We must recognize that this is mainly a strategy by the big corporate powers who control the press and conservative politics.

Australia is not really on balance bogan, despite what they tell us.
After all , with the help of the Greens and Independents, who got a big slice of the vote, we do have progressive legislation happening, such as the carbon tax and resources profits tax.

Stop boasting Diver, you're not half the w#nker that this twit is, wanting "balanced reporting, that only reports on the con mans argument.

So, not just for bogans, but for all intelligent Ozzies, what we need is a punching bag, with our Julia depicted on one side, & some fellow traveling twit on the other.

David Young would do I suppose, but he is a bit of a waste of time, & pretty small cheese.

It probably should be KRuddy. Then the 2 worst PMs any country has ever suffered consecutively, would be forever together.

God, putting those two together for ever, I didn't know I could be that nasty.

Holy-Moses "Roses",

...- what world are you in? - Unless you are a ventriloquist, I'd say you dwell under a bridge to nowhere!

Let me get this Article right.

If I don't believe in the Climate Change Propaganda, then I am a Bogan ?

Not, that this is another crap Article , trying to sell the Emperor "invisible " clothes ?

"Boganism is about the choice to invent simplistic answers to every problem with no regard to facts, available information or evidence."

"the lower class of refugee who can only arrange a boat trip and will end up in indefinite detention, whilst the upper class refuges, which arrive by plane"

I could not find hard numbers on it but my understanding is that the cost of arriving in Australia from Indonesia via boat (eg the services of people smugglers) is a lot higher than an airfare from most parts of the world. I've seen numbers of between $10k to $30k mentioned for that trip whilst I could see advertised airfares of around $500 to $600 to get from Jakarta to Sydney on the web.

Does anybody have reason to believe that those arriving by boat on our northern shores from Indonesia are travelling to Australia for less than $600 each?

Is the author's suggestion of a class structure for refugee's based on the transport they can arrange an example of inventing a simplistic answers to a problem with no regard to facts, available information or evidence?

Overall my impression of the article was an example of the attributes ascribed to bogans by the author. Simplistic spin on topics which can be complex, with a left wing slant rather than a right wing slant.

R0bert