Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, remains a popular larrikin. He is pictured here with cricket fans at the SCG moments before he skolled a beer in the crowd. Source: Supplied
Paul Hogan told Hugh Jackman at G'Day LA to not let success go to his head. Picture: Getty Picture: Mark Sullivan/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Shane Warne is another popular larrikin. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
MOST Australians think it's important to hang on to our "larrikin" nature but more than a third think we have already lost that spirit.
And Aussies have nominated Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan as the man who best embodies the modern-day larrikin.
A national survey conducted for News Ltd shows that 60 per cent of people thought it would be a bad thing if our larrikin nature disappeared.
But 36 per cent of respondents thought the concept had already gone.
Apart from Hogan, other popular "larrikins" nominated by those surveyed included cricket legend Shane Warne and radio and TV personalities Hamish and Andy.
Another actor, Hugh Jackman came in second on the list, after Hogan.
Former prime minister Bob Hawke, who at age 82 last year skulled a beer to cheers from an SCG crowd, was also given a nod.
Jackman, who spoke to News Ltd from the set of upcoming film Prisoners in Atlanta, Georgia, said anyone who was "cheeky and irreverent" would fit the bill as a larrikin.
"Even those in authority can't help but smile, even when they are crossing the line," he said.
"Larrikins make you laugh in situations when you are not meant to, they naturally see the lighter side of life."
The star of Les Miserables and the X-Men franchise said that spirit "can't be manufactured" and approved of 'Hoges being Australians' choice.
"I can say for sure after hanging with Hoges at the G'day USA Gala last Saturday night, that he is rightly number one on this list," he said.
"My favourite line from the other night: 'Jackman, if you happen to win on Sunday for best actor, don't get too carried away with yourself - I won one too!!'."
Dr Tony Moore, director of Monash University's Centre for Australian Studies, said increasing political correctness had altered the prevalence of the larrikin.
He said Barry Humphries, who was also mentioned as a larrikin by people surveyed by News Ltd, had used the concept, as well as the "ocker" image, to great effect - as did Bob Hawke.
"There has been a patriotic correctness and political correctness that holds people to account for what they say a lot more (today)," he said.
"It's created a risk averse culture. The things Bob Hawke got away with saying... it used to be easier in Australia to get away with that sort of thing."
He said politicians were now a lot more rehearsed and controlled, which fed into people's perceptions on larrikinism.
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