TIME was when you could pick a bogan easily: Barry - or Bazza - had a mullet haircut and wore a wife-beater singlet and you’d spot him leaning on his ute swigging a VB in between yelling at the missus Sharon - or Shazza.

But no longer. According to the authors of a new book, the 21st century bogan is a much more complex character, not conforming to class or income brackets - and the species is proliferating…