That's around one in forty Australians of working age, not one in six. But that's a mere detail. Some of you are old enough to remember the Paxtons, the Melbourne family pilloried as dole-bludgers by ...
In the first of his six Boyer Lectures, the News Corp chief has outlined his vision for Australia going forward, a country the Manhattan-based US citizen still calls home. News Corp is the parent ...
“Oi, get off your backside and help me out you bludger!” BEGINNING AS London criminal slang from ‘bludgeoner’ (recorded from 1856), bludger meant a pimp who bludgeons (beats with a stick) prostitutes’ ...
It’s an ugly word. Bludger. It came to us with the convicts. It meant a pimp – a scoundrel from the gin-soaked back lanes of London who lived on the earnings of a prostitute, sometimes wielding a ...
“Oi, get off your backside and help me out you bludger!” BEGINNING AS London criminal slang from ‘bludgeoner’ (recorded from 1856), bludger meant a pimp who bludgeons (beats with a stick) prostitutes’ ...