Dinkum Aussie
SEEM to have heard several Australian radio programmes in the last week or two, and it set me wondering to what extent they could be regarded as typically Australia. They certainly do not reveal much of Australia’s rightly esteemed indigenous culture; they are as surprisingly various, considering their common origin, as the allotropic forms of ‘carbon. Moreover, they seem to indicate that there is no such thing as a typically Australian accent. Bluey and Curley was a sad disappointment. It lacks the pungent brevity of the comic strip, but ploughs its way dustily
through the white-anted Q.M.S, where they keep the chestnuts. Jack Davey’s Cavalcade is much more the dinkum oil. With happy topicality last week’s instalment dealt with sit-down strikes and stop-work meetings in the building trade, and gave us laughter laced with tincture of rue. Melba, Queen of Song, is a good quality production, with, apart from its subject, no particularly Australian hallmark. (Life in Victorian Australia seems to have been for a young female regrettably like life in Victorian England.) There remains, of course, Dad and Dave who, variable and unvaried as the weather reports, are always with us. But De Mortuis (from the neck up) Nil Nisi Bonum.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 458, 2 April 1948, Page 8
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204Dinkum Aussie New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 458, 2 April 1948, Page 8
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