Some of our best Aussie traditions are being overcome by globalization, individualism and the culture of the American Empire, but the language and its colour is still there to be used. It holds the ethos even if many Australians are devoid of it. So with the verb to dob which means to inform against to an authority. The authority can mean parents, teachers, employers, police, the government. Dobbing is serious stuff. It is frowned upon - unless there is just cause. The dobber is not well thought of in Australian society. Monica Dux reminds us of that. Funny though how a government who can quite explicitly encourage dobbing from the wider community makes such dobbing a crime when it is carried out in the public interest by a bureaucrat.
