Re the Utegate farce: the Auditor-General reported on Treasury’s role and its senior policy wonk & leak Gollum Grechen, uncovering shortfalls in departmental security…
Gender Bender
Adolescent boys don’t know how to relate to girls, reports Gordon Parker, a psychiatrist who talks to parents at boys…
War: Sydney v Kormoran
Australians have an interest, not necessarily well-read, in episodes of their military history. In recent decades inchoate Aussie tribal urges have conjured up ‘remembrance’ travel to foreign cemeteries, former battlefields, prisoner of…
Body Surfing Boogie
Body surfing at Kookynie goes back to those big rain days of yore when flood waters rushed down the creek into Niagara…
Timor Time: Letter to G. Whitlam
Dear Gough, Events at Balibo in Timor in 1975, involving the killing of five Australian journalists by Indonesian military, and…
First Home Follies
Last October the first-home buyers ‘grant’ for purchase of established homes was doubled to $14,000, and tripled to $21,000 for new ones. Since then the average first home…
‘Public Enemies’
No, its not about fundamentalist terrorists, email-faking public servants or even lying, scabrous politicians. The film ‘Public Enemies’ starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion…
Ruing Roubles: Eat Roo Too!
Russia has temporarily suspended imports of kangaroo meat from Australia, apparently following contamination concerns. Unfortunately that accounts for 70% of exports,…
Liberal Leadership: An Oxymoron
Federal Liberal Party leadership is normally not worthy of KC scrutiny, with more important issues to report, like Kookynie council elections and the new baby kangaroo health…
Sydney Shaking & Sticky
Brand Sydney project, with a committee of 14 ‘stakeholders’ from government, corporations & quangos (lovely term) spent 12 months and $1 million of taxpayer funds to…
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