RE-READING THE AUSSIE PSYCHE WITH MILK TRAY AND HICK…

MARTIN JOHNSON

Back in the late Sixties, there was an advert on TV which featured a man in a polo neck jumper diving off a cliff, swimming through a school of sharks, hauling himself onto a yacht, and leaving a box of chocolates under some woman’s bedroom pillow.
They’ve recently revived it, this time moving the daredevil stuntman stuff to some Mongolian mountain, although it will presumably have to be modified for Australian audiences. Such as some chap driving along at no more than 29mph in a Fiat Tipo, plastering himself with sunscreen before getting out of...

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