It was the beginning of the real “teenagers”. The first Australian subculture to develop in the post-World War II period was that of "bodgies" (and their female counterparts "widgies", who modeled themselves after Americans who had frequented Australia during the war. The Bodgies took on the 'James Dean look', named after the young American actor who became a cultural icon of adolescent disillusionment. This led them to be seen as the cause of adolescent delinquency, violent, destructive and antisocial, and in the second half of the ' 50, concern that teenage delinquency was becoming increasingly frequent soon reached a crescendo throughout the Australian community, as increasingly sensationalist media reports fueled the view that many young Australians were out of control by promoting punishments such as sending them "overboard under a tough [navy] captain” (Perth Daily News, 10/16, 1957) aided the community's paranoia, as many lived in fear of a nuclear world war. At the time, two-thirds of Australian adults believed that peace could not and would not last beyond 1958. For older people, who had lived through the Great War. Depression and World War II, the rebellion of these teenagers was insidious. After all, young people were the hope of creating a different world, and young Australians of the 1950s did not instill much hope in Australians.