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Things He Didn’t Know

Robert Hughes, renowned expat Australian art critic, writer & broadcaster, published this autobiographical memoir in 2006, no doubt unaware that…

Robert Hughes, Things I Didn't Know

Petering Out!

Reader interest in the dearth and death of Sir Peters calls for analysis of the obvious corollary of a dwindling…

Blue Peter, Peter Bjorn & John, Peter Principle, Sir Peter

Zeitungsbeschwererkissen

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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

Woebegone Woody

In the chatter about whether Our Cate deserves an Academy Award for her role in Allan Konigsberg’s latest film Blue…

Academy Awards, Alan Stokes, Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen

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