In the multicultural Wide Brown Land we are of course accustomed to all sorts of New Orstralians refreshing our narrow gene … More
Category: Culture
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
‘God of Speed’
Luke Davies’ book was published in 2008, but often the slow mail to Kookynie means that KC’s book reviewer has … More
Sex, Sand & Sculpture
‘Sculptures by the Sea’ is a hugely popular annual event at Sydney’s Tamarama Beach with sculptures along spectacular cliff tops, and 500,000 visitors. This … More
‘Capitalism: A Love Story’
Michael Moore’s new film ventures into the broken lives of low income Americans suffering in the sub-prime melt-down and so-called global financial crisis, and … More
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