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Peter Polites

Peter Polites

Australian novelist and writer from Western Sydney, author of Down the Hume, The Pillars, and God Forgets About the Poor.

Jul 12, 2026

13:49
Wog fest.
13:50
Yeah, do you know what I mean? Where it's like, we didn't want blue eyes.
13:53
We didn't want pale skin.
13:55
We didn't want blonde hair.
13:56
Do you know what I mean? We were happy being dark skinned and dark featured because there was enough of us around.
14:01
Also, there was like the accent of Western Sydney, which I think is a distinct geographical Western Sydney accent that's at the moment a combination of... different ethnicities and different cultures and different classes.
14:12
You know, and I think like, whereas I feel like, you know, you've got that, you know, Aussie accent, right? But then also within the Western Sydney thing, you know, I'm talking to like younger guys who come out at high school now, right? And there is a distinctly, I've got to say, there's a wog fag accent
15:38
It was like a big positive thing for us, but generationally for him, it was like, you don't talk about that in public.
12:16
Wog fest.
12:17
Yeah, do you know what I mean? Where it's like, we didn't want blue eyes.
12:19
We didn't want pale skin.
12:22
We didn't want blonde hair.
12:23
Do you know what I mean? We were happy being dark skinned and dark featured because there was enough of us around.
12:28
Also, there was like the accent of Western Sydney, which I think is a distinct geographical Western Sydney accent that's at the moment a combination of... different ethnicities and different cultures and different classes.
12:38
Yeah, right.
14:05
It was like a big positive thing for us, but generationally for him, it was like, you don't talk about that in public.

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