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Arise Sir Peter!

Bunyip aristocracy. Putting all satirists out of business. Boosting republican sentiment. Every ironic or sarcastic criticism of PM Abbott’s re-introduction … More

Knights & Dames, Peter Cosgrove, Quentin Bryce, Sir Peter

Human Clothes Horse

Modern media and fashion have developed a sycophantic co-dependency, which can usually be passed over, but sometimes it can also … More

Germaine Greer, Katinka & Jeremy Somers, objectification of women, SMH, The Female Eunuch, We Are Handsome

‘Good Neighbour’ Fencing

KC editorial policy is firmly opposed to advertorial sleight-of-hand, but sometimes a product comes along that has such massive consumer … More

Good Neighbour

The New South Wales c.1840

Louisa Meredith (born in Birmingham) married her cousin Charles in 1839 in England, and sailed that year to the far-flung … More

Louisa Meredith, NSW 1840

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

News Literature

The Allen v Farrows Saga mentioned in Woebegone Woody and reader comments also prompted some insightful analysis by Lee Siegel. … More

Allen v Farrow, Lee Siegel, The New Yorker, Toodyay Newsagency

Very Wicked Camper

Time for some tabloid titillation. In fact, it’s about that virile part of male anatomy.  Sometimes pictures really do speak … More

Wicked Campers

Kitchen Confidential

Regular readers would know that despite its isolation Kookynie is a social bouillon of new ideas and trend-setting. The foodie … More

Jamie Oliver, outback cooking

Great White Hope

North of Newcastle (NSW) stretches a coast of lightly-inhabited, by humans at least, beautiful beaches and lakes, all the way … More

CSIRO shark study, David Cronshaw, Great White sharks, Myall Lakes, white pointers

Unplugged Travel

Or, as Lonely Planet announced without apparent irony in a headline article, How to go OFF THE GRID when you … More

How to go off the grid when you travel, Lonely Planet, Phillip Tang, unplugged travel

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