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Sedimentary Layers: Bob Hawke's Beer World Record and Ocker Chic

Sedimentary Layers: Bob Hawke's Beer World Record and Ocker Chic

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Sedimentary Layers: Bob Hawke's Beer World Record and Ocker Chic

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Sedimentary Layers: Bob Hawke's Beer World Record and Ocker Chic

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Abingdon: Routledge

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Journal of Australian studies, 2023-07, Vol.47 (3), p.478-496

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English

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Abingdon: Routledge

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Australia's 23rd prime minister, Bob Hawke, is celebrated for a world record set at the University of Oxford in the 1950s for the fastest consumption of a yard of ale. The beer record is apocryphal, having five evidential flaws. However, the embellishment-or fabrication-of the record was crucial to the "larrikin-leader" dual image Hawke constructed...

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Sedimentary Layers: Bob Hawke's Beer World Record and Ocker Chic

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2861030473

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2861030473

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1444-3058

E-ISSN

1835-6419

DOI

10.1080/14443058.2023.2215790

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