The Art of the Australian Insult

“A mother and son have been ordered to pay $23,100 in damages to a gay couple they harassed and vilified during a bitter neighbourhood dispute that was sparked by barking dogs.

Queensland woman Jean Lawson and her son Paul Lawson must also publish a 140-word apology in local and state newspapers after calling their one-time neighbours, Timothy Wilson and Shane McCollum, “faggots”, “poofs” and “princesses”.”

Report in the Sydney Morning Herald. Paul Lawson claimed that Wilson and McCollum called his mother a “Scottish slut”, a “Jewish whore”, a “mole” and a “bitch”.