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Proceedings of a Conference Held at School of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, September, 2003.
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Robert G. Barrett is a contemporary Australian author whose books have sold over a million copies. He is currently the most popular author of young Australian working class males, who find in Barrett's main series protagonist, Les Norton, a hero whose existence affirms the values of male working class life - mateship, heavy drinking, courage, violence, sexism and a rejection of middle class rationality. The great bulk of current Australian fiction exhibits middle class values, which alienate such readers' (author's abstract).
