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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

The Secret Life of Toasters

Most people take their household appliances for granted, but in the bush, with not much company around, we treat ours … More

DeLonghi Black Icona toaster, Good Guys, Russel Hobbs Paddington toaster

Jumbo Jets Out

On 22 July the last Qantas Boeing 747-400 departed Sydney Airport on its final flight to retirement in the Mojave … More

Qantas 747-400, QF7474, Spirit of Australia

Pop-Up Socialism

Well, who would’ve thought that a Federal government of neo-liberal ‘dries’ would come up with $190 billion of spending to … More

Big Government, Helicopter Money, Jobseeker, Milton Friedman, Milton Keynes, public goods, quantitative easing, Scotty from Marketing, snap back, Universal Basic Income

Battered Mammon

A plague of non-domestic violence has broken out in the country’s shopping malls!  According to mainstream media, retailers are getting … More

battered retailers, conspicuous consumption, philo cafe, retail orgy

‘Banking Bad’

Guest commentator Matt Caine has prepared this review of a recent book by Adele Ferguson, whose journalistic investigations were instrumental in … More

Adele Ferguson, Banking Bad, Banking Royal Commission

Not Jobson Grothe

During this interminable Australian Federal election campaign the Coalition has shortened their notorious three-word slogan format previously practised by erstwhile … More

Federal elections, Jobson Grothe

Zeitungsbeschwererkissen

Modern First World living is fraught with really annoying problems. Out Kookynie way we spend plenty of time on the … More

Akira, Deutscher Werkbund, German craft & design, KLOTU, Newspaperweight pillow

Asylum Seeker Big Business

The sorry saga of Australia’s offshore asylum seeker gulag is not just about bringing suffering and hopelessness to those in … More

asylum seekers, G4S, Manus Island, Nauru, Sydney Biennale, Transfield

Quarry or Quandary?

The Indonesian government is implementing a ban on the export of some raw mineral ores, particularly nickel and bauxite, to … More

ALcoa, aluminium production, bauxite mining, BHP, Indonesian ban on mineral exports, the Lucky Country

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