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1. Dumb 'n' Base is a play on drum and bass, a musical genre (or rather sub-genre of "jungle", which relies on breakbeats - the sort of funky drum breaks played on old soul records sped up to between 160 and 180 beats per minute - rather than using the straight 4-4 beat of house music and techno). Drum and bass is a style of jungle where the beats don't tend to be as complex as usual (jungle usually features sampled breakbeat loops which are cut up and replayed). The bassline is usually the most prominent element. For more information, see: http://jungle.syspace.co.uk/jungle/whatisjungle.html.
2. King Street is a nightclub strip in Melbourne, notorious for violence from bouncers and/or patrons.
3. Frankie Knuckles is a DJ who is considered the 'godfather of house'.
4. Colloquialism for idiot.
5. The Australian version of this yob phenomenon sees groups of young men celebrate the "last night of freedom" of a mate who is about to be married. The group usually takes in a few King Street nightclubs, some live-sex shows and excessive amounts of alcohol. The mode of transportation for this night of drunken debauchery is usually a mini-bus. The night usually culminates in the 'buck' being stripped nude, tied to a lightpole in some prominent location, with his penis painted or tarred with feathers.
6. St Vitus Dance is a nervous disorder, sometimes called chorea, where sufferers exhibit involuntary movements (which look like strange dancing) as symptoms, hence the name of the condition. St Vitus' Dance is also the name of a Bauhaus (seminal goth band) song.
7. Due to concern about a perception that racist attitudes were festering, resulting in outbreaks of racial vilification, Australia strengthened its racial vilification laws in 1995 with the introduction of the Racial Hatred Act (1995), an amendment to the Racial Discrimination Act (1975).
8. Pauline Hanson is a Queensland (northern State of Australia known for political conservatism) politician whose maiden speech in the Australian House of Representatives contained racist overtones, both in terms of Australia's indigenous population, and Asian immigration levels. Hanson and her supporters have since formed a political party known as One Nation which won 10 seats in the (June 1998) Queensland state elections.