Citations:bogan

English citations of bogan

• 1995 January 20 — Mike Houlahan, "Guitarist shines though the haze", The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), page 22

  Thanks to their diverse musical history The Cult have a fairly unusual bunch of fans, but the hippies, the Goths, the punks and the bogans all seemed to mingle well enough.

• 1995 March 6 — Mike Houlahan, "Pretty nice punk rock", The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), page 21

  When the band playing are San Francisco queer core band Pansy Division, some of the bods are even odder than normal. The black-shirted bogan brigade who often attend such events were indeed highly outnumbered, much to the amusement of Pansy Division, who teased their hecklers mercilessly.

• 1997 June 5 — Lois Davey, "Bogans", The Southland Times (New Zealand), page 4

  Further to what's shaping up to be a burgeoning bogan debate, my understanding of a bogan is that it's male, closely-cropped on top, dressed in black, has ugly-looking dog in tow, enjoys heavy metal music, and is normally spotted roving the streets with others of its ilk during working hours, or lounging around nonchalantly in the district court foyer.

• 1997 October 18 — "The last word", The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), page 64

  "Everyone knows," she told the class, "that Bogans wear black jerseys, listen to heavy metal music, muck around with old cars and live in West Auckland."

• 1998 June 14 — Lena Erakovich, "Westies far reaching culture", Sunday News (New Zealand), page 27

  "Westies are out there - and not just in Auckland. Gilmour went on tour with a camera crew for an affectionate look at North Island westie culture, including a look at Tauranga's Ulysses Bike Club and the black T-shirt brigade from Gisborne, New Plymouth and Palmerston North. They might have different nicknames - petrolhead, bogan, gruff, metalhead - but they all love their leather jackets, black jeans and burning rubber."

• 1999 November 24 — Helen Bain, "Noisy lunch yielded no break from campaigning", The Dominion (Wellington, New Zealand), page 2

  There Mrs Shipley delivered her standard campaign greeting, "Hi, I'm Jenny", to a bogan chick, wearing tight black leggings, a black waistcoat, with bleached hair and a roll-your-own.

• 1999, Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster, page 6

  Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.

• 2008 April 12 — Simon Lauder, "Bogan Pl residents lobby for name change", ABC News (Australia)

  Residents want the Bogan Place street sign changed to Rainforest Close.

  Residents of a street on Sydney's North Shore have been moved to action by the negative connotations of their street name - Bogan Place.

  The local council is being lobbied for a name change because residents are sick of being teased about the name.

  But in country New South Wales the mayor of the Bogan Shire embraces the name and he is encouraging the residents of Bogan Place to do the same.

  A bogan is a person from a lower socio-economic background who is viewed as uncultured. That association has led to ridicule and taunts for some residents of Wahroonga on Sydney's upper North Shore.

  Russell Stretton has lived in Bogan Place for 10 years. He is sick of people making fun of his street name but he says it has been getting worse over the years.

  "This subdivision here was I think developed in the 60s. Now, no one knew about bogans 30 or 40 years ago, but nowadays you mention the word bogan and it raises all sorts of negative connotations," Mr Stretton said.

  It is not just the connotations. Mr Stretton says the Bogan Place street sign has been stolen six times in two years. That is why he believes Ku-ring-gai Council will accept the residents' petition to change the name to Rainforest Close - a name which he says better reflects the local wildlife.

  "We're middle class people and it's got really nothing to do with who's in the street," Mr Stretton said.

  He also says trying to get people to pronounce it differently would be difficult as they already have a habitual way of saying it.

  But for the Mayor of Bogan Shire Council in the central west of New South Wales, the name is one to be proud of. Ray Donald says for the people of Nyngan on the Bogan River the word has a noble meaning.

  "Well it goes back to a tribe of Aboriginals that were in this vicinity and were met by Major Thomas Mitchell when his first expedition came through here in 1835 as he came along the bed of the Bogan River," Cr Donald said.

  He says the shire has not suffered from the association that is in the Macquarie Dictionary.

  "No, not at all. There's no connection at all," he said.

  "I think what's in the Macquarie Dictionary probably would be ripped out if people who put it there knew the calibre and resilience of the people who live in Bogan Shire, who have sustained one of the worst floods that a town has ever had, in 1990, when the whole town had to be evacuated because the Bogan River flooded."

• 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 47

  The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.

• 2016 November 19 — Steve Braunias , "Simonne Butler - Holding hope in her hands after P-fuelled sword attack by Tony Dixon", The New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)

  She explained, "I'm not a bogan; I'm a westie - we're higher class! A bogan is black jeans, black T-shirts, mullet, greasy hair, doesn't wash much, listens to metal."