And the spectacle is often grotesque: barracking, sneering, humiliation and contempt.

So can you be a good Australian without barracking for Australia?

The answer, of course, is that teachers have done nothing to deserve this barracking.

After years of trying to handle her father's off-message barracking, it seemed Marine had snapped.

And yet who do I find myself barracking for?

If you've got money, what were you doing barracking?

The booing and barracking barely rose above a whisper.

His comments followed increasing levels of heckling and barracking in the Dáil chamber in recent months.

There was some low-level barracking from a crowd of young men as he left the polling booth.

Her barracking must have worked with the US winning 29 -17.

Yet I was barracking for someone else.

How could such a delicate flower be expected to raise his voice above all that schoolboy barracking?

But the barracking was not over.

Dickson, however, took his barracking good-humouredly.

And he was tearing into his right-wing Young Labor rival to much barracking from the floor of the conference.

She promptly corrected herself, announcing that Conservative Ben Bradley had in fact triumphed amid barracking shouts from the crowd.