Whatever your political leanings, it's pretty shonky when big businesses are straight up financially influencing policy.
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Well, I quite wanted to go to Croatia this summer, but that's immediately costing me about 25 percent more thanks to your shonky voting.
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Also winning a Shonky Award was Green and Clean — literally a bottle of air, ostensibly gathered in the wilds of the Blue Mountains and Tasmania.
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For its trouble, the junk food won one of Choice's annual Shonky Awards, which aims to "name and shame" the products taking Australians for the biggest rides.
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Whatever was going on in the shonky pubs and bars that provided the social nucleus for 'alt' teens before the smoking ban came in: that was Scuzz.
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It looked absolutely terrifying, like a scene from The Shining—only instead of a kid with a shonky bowl cut it was me and my David-Bowie-as-Jareth-The-Goblin-King imitation mullet.
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The record's joyous reception is what reportedly eventually prompted Apollonia—the label belonging to the trio of Ghenacia, Dyed Soundroom, and Shonky—to give the record a single-sided re-release in 2013, further cementing its cult status in the new emerging underground.
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Solomun. The mere mention of the German selector's name should be enough, but when his +1 is Mano Le Tough, there is really nowhere else to be than the Martina Beach Club during the day on Friday All three of Apollonia's DJs are worth seeing in their own right, but when Dyed Soundorom, Dan Ghenacia, and Shonky get behind the decks together, it's a special occasion for everyone.
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CHOICE also holds the annual "Shonky Awards" that highlight dubious or dishonest behaviour from companies. The awards help consumers to identify the worst of the worst, and name and shame that year's shonkiest products and companies. "Shonky" is Australian slang meaning "unreliable, unsound, dishonest, poor or of dubious quality; shoddy".
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Another study by ACA in 2006 found 5 of the 23 pie products tested had less than the minimum 25% meat required. In 2006, The ACA awarded pie manufacturer Black and Gold "The CHOICE Shonky Award for UnAustralian Content" for their pies found to contain just 17% meat.The CHOICE Shonky for UnAustralian Content – CHOICE May 2006 edition The meats allowed by FSANZ to make up at least 25% of a meat pie are beef, buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit and sheep. Kangaroo meat, a leaner alternative, is also sometimes used.
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Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness is a Hayward Touring Exhibition curated by Dr. John Walter going across the UK. It features giant nachos. Pachucos y Serenas (February 8, 2018 - August 18, 2018) at the Museo de las Americas in Denver, Colorado featured a full-size lowrider piñata.
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Coca-Cola was given a 2015 Shonky Award by Australian consumer organisation Choice, due to its funding of GEBN, which amounted to at least $1.5m in 2015. On November 30, 2015, the group announced on its website that it would discontinue operations immediately. Shortly before this, the chief public scientist at Coca-Cola announced her retirement. Coca-Cola did not replace the position.
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Peter Beilby & Scott Murray, "Michael Pate", Cinema Papers, May–June 1979 p401 Kevin James Dobson later claimed he felt that the script was never quite right and "one or two performances were a little shonky" but that he has great affection for the movie.Scott Murray, "Kevin Dobson", Cinema Papers, Jan-Feb 1982 p14 There are several different edits of the film available, one by Dobson, one by Pate.
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Between 2006 and 2008 he was Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome. He was the winner of the Hayward Touring Curatorial Open 2017. His winning proposal, Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness explored the art of visual awkwardness through a group exhibition of work by 14 artists and architects. It was presented at the Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) in Belfast before touring to Dundee Contemporary Arts and Sculpture Centre.
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Like Today Tonight, the program's former rival on Seven, A Current Affair is often considered by media critics and the public at large to use sensationalist journalism – as depicted in the parody television show Frontline – and to deliberately present advertising as editorial content, as previously exposed on the ABC program Media Watch. Stories covered by ACA rotate around community issues i.e. diet fads, miracle cures, welfare cheats, shonky builders, negligent doctors, poorly run businesses and corrupt government officials.
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CHOICE also campaigns on behalf of consumers and is a representative on many national and state-based government committees, councils and independent bodies related to consumer rights and issues including food regulation and labelling, health and financial services, telecommunications and digital technology, standards codes, ecologically sustainable development and the environment. The organisation also holds the annual "Shonky Awards" that highlight dubious or dishonest behaviour. They name and shame that year's most suspect products and companies. Every year CHOICE and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission host the Ruby Hutchison Memorial Lecture presenting consumer and rights topics.
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Today Tonight was notorious for its sensationalist reporting, and was an example of tabloid television where stories rotated around controversial issues such as diet fads, miracle cures, welfare cheats, shonky builders, negligent doctors, poorly run businesses and corrupt government officials. For this reason the program was constantly ridiculed and criticised, perhaps most famously by ABC TV's Media Watch and the satirical group The Chaser. Today Tonight was also been found multiple times to be in breach of the Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA) policies with regard to invasions of privacy and not presenting factual material accurately.
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He assessed it as "better structured, funnier and more absorbing" than the previous single episode "Victory of the Daleks" and praised the comedy and acting of Alex Price. However, he thought the "expensive-looking locations are let down by shonky special effects". Gavin Fuller gave the episode a negative review in The Daily Telegraph, calling it "highly disappointing" and "a tragically wasted opportunity." He criticised the writing and plot for "sheer derivativeness", noting that the opening scene was "similar in concept" to Whithouse's previous Doctor Who episode "School Reunion" and thought the "aliens-posing-as-humans idea" was taken from that script as well.
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The album received a generally positive reaction from critics. British newspaper The Guardian described Love Kraft as the band's "best album yet" and musicOMH claimed it to be "the greatest realisation of the Super Furry vision to date". Uncut was similarly impressed calling the album "perhaps the defining record of [the band's] career" while Yahoo Music UK thought Love Kraft was "perfect pop". The NME had reservations however, stating that although the album is "easily as engaging and full of the wild possibilities of pop music as anything else in their peerless canon" it is "not quite up there with Radiator due to its brace of shonky ballad filler ("Cloudberries" and "Cabin Fever")".
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Following the cancellation of The Mick Molloy Show, Molloy returned with a video release, entitled Shonky Golf with Mick Molloy, and he directed the feature-length documentary Tackle Happy (2000). He played Kim's dad Gary Poole on Kath & Kim (2003–04) and co-starred, with David Wenham, in two Murray Whelan telemovies, Stiff and The Brush-Off (both 2004). He has starred in three movies, Crackerjack (2002) (which he also co-wrote, receiving an AFI nomination), Tony Martin's Bad Eggs (2003), and BoyTown (2006), which, like Crackerjack, he co-wrote with his brother Richard Molloy. During production of the DVD-release for Boytown in 2007, Molloy and his long-time collaborator Tony Martin had a dispute over the proposed extra content for the DVD and the two have not worked together since.
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In 2008, the Australian consumer organisation Choice gave one of its annual 'Shonky' awards to vitaminwater, saying that, despite the claim that the drinks were healthy, "one bottle contains about a third of the recommended daily sugar intake for an average adult woman ... and none contains more than 1% fruit juice". Choice also noted that the label on one flavour blatantly mocked food regulations designed to protect consumers by stating, "We are prohibited from making exaggerated claims about the potency of the nutrients in this bottle", before making exaggerated claims about the potency of the nutrients in the bottle. In 2009, brand owner The Coca-Cola Company was sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The suit alleged that the marketing of the drink as a "healthful alternative" to soda is deceptive and in violation of Food and Drug Administration guidelines.
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In 2010, the Australian consumer advocate Choice awarded Nurofen a "Shonky award" for charging more for "targeted" products, all of which had the same active ingredient as the base product. In 2012, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration upheld a complaint that Nurofen's advertising of different products for different pain was "misleading or likely to be misleading", and ordered that "any representation that refers to two or more Nurofen products that contain equivalent quantities of ibuprofen and include the same product specific indications on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods must clearly indicate, in the body of the advertisement, that the two products can be used for the same purposes and are interchangeable (or words to that effect)". In April 2013, the Australian consumer affairs television programme The Checkout ran a story about Nurofen's claims about targeting specific pain. Edelman, the PR company for Reckitt Benckiser provided a statement, some of which was used in the programme.
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