Thanks to Gordon
Hookey for allowing us to publish his artwork as part of this issue.
Robert plays
hookey from school to get stoned with recently expelled thug Joe (Ryan Winsley) and sweet-natured but easily led Ben (Charles Mnene).
``I used to play
hookey from school and sneak into shows.
26-31.12.2004: International Spengler Cup': ice
hookey tournament
But eagle-eyed bosses keen to maintain productivity and profit margins are fighting back on the employees who play
hookey on company time.
There has not been any public outrage about Vernon Ah Kee's text-based work ('Non People', Bellas Gallery, Brisbane 2002) nor about some of
Hookey's scathing 'Ruddock's Wheel' series (Pacific Wave, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney 200l).
Other suggestions as to the origin of hoagie include: hoke sandwich, favored by hoboes who were on the hoke; a reference to the pork or hog meat in the sandwich; honky sandwich, called that by blacks who saw whites eating them; and
hookey sandwich, favored by kids skipping school who would buy them from sidewalk vendors.
BROOKSIDE (S4C) Tim and Steve are frustrated they can't spend their cash,and have to accept a removal job from
Hookey to keep up appearances -but romance blossoms when the former meets someone while on the job.
(43) In 1984, a prescient piece by
Hookey (44) critically examined the approach of the plaintiffs in Coe v Commonwealth (45) and suggested that there was support for the non-conventional view.
I would especially like to hear from Gillian Roberts, Sylvia Else, Janet Peacock, Janet Gilbert, the
Hookey sisters, Janet Eyre, Elsie Walker, Myrtle Pridmore, Hilary Chant, Jacqueline Noon and Iris Hall whom I remember from the mid-1950s.
(14.) As
Hookey has pointed out, the courts raised doubts as far back as 1836 over whether New Holland had been peacefully settled or conquered, and what this entailed for the legal status of the Indigenous inhabitants.
In the twentieth century,
hookey cops swept up "ne'er-do-wells" and placed them in school.
Spending a school day at the cinema may seem like playing
hookey, but it is what thousands of pupils and students will be doing from tomorrow.