Born on 30 April 1986

What Was 1986 Like in Australia?

If you were born in 1986, Paul Hogan strode out of the bush and onto the world's cinema screens and *Crocodile Dundee* became one of the most successful Australian films ever made, grossing hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide and cementing an image of Australia — the larrikin, the bush, the knife, "that's not a knife" — that was simultaneously accurate and a cartoon.