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When you change the government, you change the country. So said Paul Keating, and while time and overuse have made it a cliché, it’s still broadly true. And it’s not just legislation and leadership teams that change. There are shifts, subtle and seismic, to social and cultural norms. Not unfamiliar with the arcane codifications of Albo’s inner-west heartland, Crikey satirist Tom Red spills the beans on what’s hot and what’s not in the new paradigm.

Your music

In: “Let There Be Rock” — Henry Rollins and the Hard-Ons

Out: “Let There Be Light“ — Hillsong Worship

Your sports

In: Tackling childhood obesity through sport  

Out: Tackling actual children

Your schooling

In: Hard Knocks Public High, or St Struggle’s Culturally Catholic School for Gifted Proles and Promising Halfbacks

Out: Anything with the name “Andrew” in the title 

Your food 

In: Steak and chips, hold the chips

Out: Sri Lankan chicken curry, raw or cooked

Your beer

In: Albo Pale Ale

Out: Doing a shoey with Brother Stuey

Your self-improvement books 

In: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Out: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Your beach reads

In: Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock’n’roll by Stuart Coupe

Out: The New Social Contract: Renewing the Liberal Vision for Australia by Tim Wilson 

Your name-dropping

In: Grace, Rusty, Briggsy, Barnsy and Van Badham.

Out: Gina, Rupert, Gerry, Pastor Brian, Jen and the girls

Your clothes

In: The “Small Target” collection from Target, Celibate Rifles t-shirts and original Newtown Jets jerseys

Out: Hi-vis

Latest movies 

In: Everything Everywhere All at Once
When an interdimensional rupture unravels electoral reality, an unlikely hero must channel newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Out: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 
The story of a fading actor who is creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin. To save himself and his loved ones he must confront his own legend and recreate his most iconic stunts, but this time without a net.  

Classic movies

In: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

Out: The Croods

Dining 

In: The Lucky Prawn Chinese-Australian bistro, at the Bob Hawke Beer & Leisure Centre in Marrickville.

Out: Engadine McDonald’s

Your holidays

In: Bundaberg 

Out: Honolulu 

Your TV shows

In: Question time (ABC TV)

Out: Sky after dark (Sky News Australia)