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Bad Boys

Here we go again! In the same week, two glaring examples of the nefarious consequences of the ageing ‘elephant-in-the-room’ in … More

Asher Learmonth, Cranbrook school, private boys schools, sexual assault, single sex schools

‘Utopia is Creepy’

I’m backing our government in the current face-off with Facebook. Zuckerberg thought he could teach Australia a lesson by turning … More

Facebook free, Utopia is Creepy

Uncrowned & Unpacked

(Health warning: reading about corruption and gambling in Australia can be distressing). An enquiry by Justice Patricia Bergin found that … More

Crown Casinos, Helen Coonan, Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority, James Packer, Justice Patricia Bergin, NSW gambling tax, O'Farrell government

Facebook Free

STOP PRESS: Kookynie Courier unaffected by Facebook ban on Australian news. Media watchers will remember 2012, when Gina Rinehart raided … More

Facebook free, Zuckerberg sect

Tale of Two Joysticks

My airline ‘career’ was in the halcyon flying days of last century, which continued hubristically for another twenty years. Now … More

airline industry, American Airlines, video game fortunes

Dendobrium Destroyer

Dendobriums constitute a large genus of attractive Australian native orchids, endemic to S.E. Australia, but incredibly one of its hybrids … More

Dendobrium mine, Dendobrium orchids, NSW IPC, South 32

Quarantine Groundhog Day

Rupert’s media have infected much of Scotty’s thinking, but KC hit the mark with our recent Zero Emissions Net and … More

Burnett Institute, national quarantine standards, Professor Michael Toole

Houellebecq Weltanschauung*

Sérotonine is the latest novel by France’s ageing enfant terrible Michel Houellebecq (pronounced well-BECK), with his hallmark provocations and ironic … More

Elementary Particles, Florent-Claude, Michel Houellebecq, Platform, Serotonin, Submission

Zero Emissions Net

As President Biden gets the USA set to re-join the Paris climate accords and declare a target of net zero … More

Paris climate accords, Scotty from Marketing, zero net emissions

Bald-Faced Archies

The Archibald Prize is the NSW Art Gallery’s popular and populist, annual award for portraiture. Christopher Allen, eminent art reviewer, … More

archibald prize, christopher allen, fake art

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