Tina Faulk

Spending Penny

31 January 2024 2:15 am

In the past, Foreign Minister Penny Wong did not hesitate to commit considerable funds to UNRWA, the UN relief agency…

Matt Thistlethwaite: the man with the flag

11 January 2024 1:12 pm

The British Locomotive Act of 1865 stated: …while any locomotive is in motion, [a person] shall proceed … on foot…

Game of wolves

30 November 2023 1:00 am

The Albanese government mantra regarding relations with China ‘we need to cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we…

Our ‘handsome boy’ in Beijing

28 November 2023 2:00 am

Gosh, who knew the Prime Minister would be acclaimed as a ‘handsome boy coming from Australia’, as announced by China’s…

Companions-in-arms

8 November 2023 4:30 am

Last Friday night, the ‘specials’ on the menu at Burwood’s RSL sold out fast. Not just because they were great…

Now the recriminations begin

19 October 2023 8:53 pm

Despite the promised week of silent mourning for the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, the recriminations and blame-to-be-laid are…

Jolly (expensive) junketeers!

6 September 2023 5:30 am

When you wake to the news that federal parliamentarians will be travelling to Washington DC to plead for the release…

Voting ‘Yes’ for ‘designated’ jobs

19 August 2023 5:00 am

On the bus in Drummoyne, Sydney, an obvious granddad with his cherubic grandson, who cheerfully ignores all worried cautions in…

Why Australian migrants are voting ‘no’ to the Voice

11 August 2023 4:30 am

In 1924 the US Congress passed the Immigration Act banning Asian – particularly Chinese – immigrants to America. Faster than the Yanks,…

Anthony Albanese’s Concorde Fallacy

1 August 2023 6:00 am

Last Saturday I watched as a sandy-haired young supporter of the ‘Yes’ case earnestly endeavoured to give his leaflets away…

The new ‘er guizi’

29 June 2023 4:00 am

During the dark years of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, when Stanley Village was an internment camp for British nationals…

Glory to Hong Kong

11 June 2023 4:33 am

Recently someone – no name, no return address – sent me a white cotton T-shirt. On the front it said…

‘Unity in diversity’ – why not here? 

8 June 2023 5:30 am

During his most recent sojourn in Indonesia, Prime Minister Albanese may have found time to notice that nation’s national slogan…

‘Junior’ Coalition partner?

30 November 2022 12:22 pm

On Monday, the Nationals under David Littleproud and Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price took a political step that…

The laddie’s not for turning

13 November 2022 11:00 am

If you walked down a south side Canberra road during the lead-up to the last federal election, as this spectator…

The more things change...

5 November 2022 7:00 am

In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf…

NDIS: improvements that make things worse

22 October 2022 6:00 am

Sometimes, when English is insufficient to describe a particular situation, we have to turn elsewhere. German has a terrifying phrase ‘verschlimmbesserung’ or…

A severe case of political amnesia

12 October 2022 10:00 am

In Canberra, a severe case of political amnesia has just been detected. Not life-threatening, of course, just concerning for those…

The Jacinta juggernaut

6 October 2022 7:00 am

‘My word she’s good.’ The comment is from the woman in the seat beside me at the Conservative Political Action…

Canberra: where electricity is a luxury the poor can't afford

1 August 2022 7:10 am

‘Where do you go?’ They are all older women, retirees from the federal and territory public services, the ASO 5…

Sri Lanka: aftermath of a political tsunami

13 July 2022 7:00 am

Members of the Sri Lankan diaspora, people like my family, have been noticeably quiet about the upheavals in their former…

Plibersek: lady in waiting

6 June 2022 12:00 pm

Remember Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong having to sit, teeth clenched, on the ABC’s 2019 election night special as results…

Frocky horror picture show

16 May 2022 2:00 pm

Running alongside the gladiatorial spectacle of two men locked in verbal combat across Australia [Scomo and Albo] is another, only…

The once and future Prince of Parramatta

5 April 2022 2:00 pm

Get on any bus speeding down Victoria Road and (on the right one), you land in Parramatta.  It used to…

‘Gave jade, received brick’

23 March 2022 12:00 pm

A pregnant woman and her unborn child lost their lives after the bombing of the hospital at Mariupol. The terrified,…