From tongue-in-cheek gibes to brutal invective, here is a lively collection of Australian insults handed out to politicians by politicians, to critics by performers, to Sydneysiders by Melburnians (and speedily back again). Of course that universal source of wounding wit, Anon., is generously represented. A couple of centuries of practice have honed Australian skills in the art of hurling insults, and Great Aussie Insults is the essential handbook to perhaps the greatest of national sports.
