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Bodgie was about an insecure young man drawn into crime.

They know how bodgie their polls are, which is why they never call for a referendum.

He was handsome, though a bit of a Brylcreem Bodgie.

The bodgie: a study in abnormal psychology.

After holding meetings with local executives, Albano said he found out that the mayors prefer Bodgie to lead.

The novel depicts the life of a former 'bodgie' as he leaves gaol and cynically searches for purpose in life.

A bodgie courts a widgie (click on thumbnail for enlargement and more information)

For example, do you blame the shonky operators for the bodgie installations or is the whole thing a furphy?

A more exaggerated version of the character was revived as the "last living bodgie" in the 1985 comedy series News Free Zone.

He was impressed by the impassioned matey rhetoric of Bob Hawke, the silver bodgie as White called him.

Bodgie is an Australian television movie, or rather a live television play with filmed sequences, which aired on ABC during 1959.

She had spent 38 years as a homemaker and mother of four children before emerging from the shadow of her former husband who was dubbed the "silver bodgie."

His victim, on the second attempt, was Bill Hayden, who looked rather grey and listless alongside the plumed "Silver Bodgie."

A CORK man has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail and faces deportation upon his release for his part in the "bodgie" tax scam.

The Mazengarb Report (Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents) of 1954 was partly a response to the emergence of the bodgie & widgie subculture.

Former Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke was nicknamed the Silver Bodgie by the Australian media for his thick silver-grey hair worn in the bodgie style and loutish behaviour before entering politics.