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Publication details [#52255]
Simic, Zora. 2008. 'What are ya?': negotiating identities in the western suburbs of Sydney during the 1980s. Journal of Australian Studies 32 (2) : 223–236. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper discusses how the history of the Western Sydney suburbian category of 'westie', transformed throughout the 1980s and simultaneously evoking assimilation, lockout and local and national pride, can exhibit histories of Australian multiculturalism, nationalism and suburbia.