‘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

Uncrowned & Unpackered

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

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

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

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

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

Many thanks to The Oatmeal for their kind permission to use the cartoon (and to Jack for spotting it). * … More

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

Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of living with his first wife Hadley in Paris in 1921-26, as a young struggling writer, is … More