If it's Ferry McFerryFace it must be April Fool's Day
There really is a problem with visiting on a Sydney ferry a one-line joke that will be told for the next 40 or 50 years.
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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
Face the facts Australia - NZ is lapping us
They are the sophisticates. We are the provincials.
Send citizenship stories to the Fair Dinkum Department
The job of this person will be to vet the stories put forth by MPs – for example, stories explaining why they are not dual citizens – and then decide whether they should, or should not, be put in the public domain.
Chemistry the formula for a genuine friendship on and off-air
How two totally different people can still be friends.
Could doomed explorer Wills be a gay hero?
There is no evidence of a physical bond between William Wills and anyone, but the love between him and Richard Birnie jumps from the diaries and letters.
How do political parties stuff up something as basic as citizenship?
The biggest mystery, surely, is how professional political organisations can stuff up something as fundamental as sorting out dual citizenship.
The paparazzi give chase and I can only shake my head
Huge week, and I'd rather not go into it too deeply. Allow me to say, simply, that it is a seriously weird thing to come out from your house on a Tuesday morning and be confronted by a posse of paparazzi when you are trying to take the bins in.
Monarchists can't pretend the royals are just a symbol
Here we have two unelected Brits, discussing with one unelected Australian, the fate of Australia's duly elected government and the best way to bring it down.
Anglican apology applauded, but what of attack on Baird?
You will recall all the bitter accusations made against the ABC and my sister-from-another-mister Julia Baird over the latter's reports about women in the Christian church.
Fitz files: Scale of slaughter in Las Vegas leaves me in despair for America
What can I, or anyone, say that is fresh, on the tragedy of what happened in Las Vegas? I suggest, nothing. Yes, the sheer scale of this massacre was overwhelming, as was its calculated cruelty, but we've not only seen it all before, we've expressed our horror, and our incomprehension that the Americans can let this go on, day after day, month after month, year after year – always getting worse – and not do something. Allow me to say, however, of all the thousands of words I read on the subject this week, all detailing just how bad the situation is, one stat stood out, courtesy of The New York Times: "Every day, some 92 Americans die from guns, and American kids are 14 times as likely to die from guns as children in other developed countries …"
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