Larrikin
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Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good-hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conve
Depiction of a larrikin, from Nelson P. Whitelocke's book A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side (1885)
Dawn Fraser
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Dawn Fraser is an Australian freestyle champion swimmer, eight-time Olympic medalist, a 15-year world record holder in the 100-metre freestyle, and a former politician. The winner of countless honours
Larrikin
…eight or eleven of the biggest mud crushers in Melbourne to take one poor little half starved larrakin to a watch house. In 1965, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser was banned from competition by the Australian Swimming Union for various incidents at the previous year's Summer Olympics. Fraser was later described…
Dawn Fraser in May 2012
Fraser in 1958
MV Dawn Fraser Arriving into Milsons Point ferry wharf
Dawn Fraser and Ilsa Konrads at the Australian National Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, North Sydney Olympic Pool, 27 February 1960