Imagine if Kevin Rudd owned TV stations 7, 9 & 10 (and controlled news on ABC & SBS), The Australian & Age newspapers, Australian Consolidated Press and Brisbane Bulldogs rugby league team. Imagine also that he had been charged with tax fraud, false accounting, attempting to bribe a judge and embezzlement. And that all this [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Utegate: Tell ‘em they’re dreaming, prego!
Posted in Politics, tagged Berlusconi, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Utegate on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
World Game: Kickers Hold On
Posted in Sport, tagged St Pauli, Wallabies on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Under grey skies at KKC Stadium the Kookynie Kickers held visiting St Pauli (Hamburg) soccer team to a lucky draw before a record crowd of several locals and a busload of German fans. In the 35th minute KK striker Ben Goldfield’s random rebound off St Pauli’s broken goal post opened the score (KK’s first goal in three seasons). Play swung wildly as the visitors struggled [...]
Storm, no teacup!
Posted in Economy, tagged Opes Prime, Storm Financial on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aptly named Storm Financial (planning, that is – no irony intended) managed to sink $3 billion of investors’ money by channelling home & margin loans (to buy shares) and other investment products from Big Banks to unsophisticated investors often unable to support the debts. Commonwealth Bank’s Chief Executive has admitted that his bank has lots of explaining to [...]
King Kevin Goes ¡Hola!
Posted in Diplomacy, tagged Cervantes Institute, Juan Carlos on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our real GG (not Grechen), the Queen’s Representative in Australia, had to play second fiddle as our reigning monarch KK officially welcomed his Spanish counterpart King Juan Carlos and his missus to the Wide Brown Land. Impressing yet again with his flair for foreign languages, our Kev read an hispanic welcome, strutting his stuff as [...]
Iranian Democracy 101
Posted in World, tagged Iranian elections on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(POH in Tehran) The Iranian presidential election story is really simple. Mousavi is committed to freedom, a reformist agenda and other good stuff. But as PM in the 80s he was considered a hardliner close to Ayatollah Khomeini, who ousted the Shah to create a so-called Islamic Republic. At that time the current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who replaced Khomenei, was president [...]
GG Comes Out!
Posted in Politics, tagged Utegate on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, Governors-General do not make headlines, thank God (i.e. Gough). Grechen Godwin (his parents had a sense of humour) thinks he remembers an email from ‘PMO’ about the PM’s car dealer mate. Would you believe he’s referring to the Prime Minister’s Office, a lovely conceit indeed. Imagine the oak desk and chairs having a meeting [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Editorial on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the re-launch and first edition of the new-look KKC! You may be wondering why Kookynie needs a new voice, and even wondering where it is, Kookynie that is, not the voice. Because this is it’s new online voice, as the old printed one had dimmed over the years. Which is why it’s being re-launched [...]
