How Chris O’Doherty became Reg Mombassa is not clear. In a recent profile by Nick Galvin (SMH) it’s explained as … More
Category: Culture
Kevin from TV
Following Gillard’s guillotining we’re wondering what Kevin Rudd’s mass appeal is all about. Psychoanalysis of the Australian body (brain?) politic is called for. … More
Catch 22 Encore
The name Snowden rang a bell for a literary character and the penny finally dropped, to mix metaphors again: Catch … More
How to be German
In the multicultural Wide Brown Land we are of course accustomed to all sorts of New Orstralians refreshing our narrow gene … More
Super Eruv & Sculptures
Eruv erectors are on the job again in Bondi, ostentatiously occupying prime real estate in the 16th annual Sculptures by the Sea … More
‘Hear the Train Blow’
In our era of affluenza and intensive navel-gazing, its useful to occasionally put our spoilt lives into historical and real perspective … More
Original Land Management
The received wisdom about our earliest colonial painters was that they portrayed this strange Gondwana landscape through the prism of their European-trained … More
The Magic Pudding
Norman Lindsay probably didn’t waste too much time studying economics in his young turn-of-20th century days, as the ‘dismal science’ hadn’t yet … More
Global Gormley
Kookynie is often in the vanguard of cultural (first Australian outback eruv) and artistic endeavours. In the 2003 Perth Festival, … More
Shame, The Hunter & Sleeping Beauty
Reviews of three films about alienation, exploitation and redemption. Shame is directed by Steve McQueen (no, the Bullitt guy died in 1980) and … More
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