Dawn Fraser, a Larrikin

"We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me."

[As I’m away from the keyboard this week, and watching the Olympics here and there, I thought I’d re-post this appreciation from September of 2022 of one the great Olympians. No surprise that she was an Australian swimmer.]

To understand Dawn Fraser, one must first understand what it is to be a larrikin.  In fact, to understand a larrikin is to understan…