The Waanyi artist is taking on the global rise of the right in his playful works, poking fun at Trump and ‘Tukka Cullsin’
Peter Dutton Voldemort?” he says. “The true Voldemort is Rupert Murdoch. He who cannot be named – if you can’t be named, you can’t be responsible for the genesis of the harm that you’ve done through your propaganda.”
Born in 1961 in Cloncurry to a single teenage Waanyi mother, Rose, who also had Chinese and Javanese ancestry, Hookey was raised by his aunt Flo from the age of two. Both women have since passed away. His childhood was happy, if impoverished, growing up in corrugated iron humpies and tents in a fringe camp up the hill from Coppermine Creek, in north-west Queensland.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningVarious uncles, many of them stockmen who brought back stories from their travels, were his father figures: he recalls his Uncle “Chonk”, Johnny Samarden, gathering the children and drawing figures in the dirt, casting Hookey and his cousins as superheroes in his stories.
“I don’t know,” he says. “I’m very sceptical of government … I just wonder how much say community has in government policy. As a single dad that’s been separated from my family, I haven’t really got a place for my little boys to come and stay with me because I can’t find a place on the rental market.” Hookey blames the investment market: “The majority of people in parliament have investment property. There’s no way they’re going to change that because of their own interests.
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