Despite colonial Van Demonian (oh yeah!) attempts to exterminate its aborigines in the 1820-30s, it seems that the extant Tasmanian…
PM Loses AAA Rating
Well, it wasn’t rocket surgery for KC to correctly predict the PM’s imminent demise. The political circus act in the…
Shorten Sweet
Since this yummy headline appeared over a Paddy Manning article in The Monthly on 30 July, I’ve been hoping for…
Humpty Trumpty
The mind-bending Trumpian world operates in a bulletproof moral and factual vacuum, which has made sarcasm and irony, my tools…
“Germany: Memories of a Nation”
Neil MacGregor’s book is a real tour de force, to use an expression from south of the Rhine. Ex-director of…
Vale Miss Breville!
Today is sad, as my humble and loyal hairdresser has passed away. She had trimmed my golden locks every coupla…
Coping with Tim
Tim Cope is an Australian adventurer who made a remarkable solo trip by horseback from Mongolia to Hungary over a…
Over-Archied ‘4321’
My friend Clare gave me an endurance test with the gift of this 866 page novel by Paul Auster, about…
Kool Kiwis
Enzed is a great little country, full of civic-minded folk. By the way, little is good. It’s a pity they…
Survey Waste: $121,950,000
Readers are astonished by KC’s exclusive revelations about the Federal government’s bogus $122m postal survey on ‘marriage equality’. Okay, one…