1. Changes in Australia post 1941
THE HISTORY OF SURFING "But a diversion the most common is upon the Water, where there is a very great Sea, and surf breaking on the Shore. The Men sometimes 20 or 30 go without the Swell of the Surf, & lay themselves flat upon an oval piece of plan about their Size and breadth, they keep their legs close on top of it, & their Arms are used to guide the plank, they wait the time of the greatest Swell that sets on Shore, & altogether push forward with their Arms to keep on its top, it sends them in with a most astonishing Velocity, & the great art is to guide the plan so as always to keep it...
It`s freaks and monsters [...] confirmed the unflattering image of Australia as an uncultured, untutored, unsophisticated place, full of bumpkins and possibly inbred wolf-wits.7) The Australian Ocker films' of the the early 70`s such as "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie- and "Alvin Purple- confirm this distasteful cinematic era. ...