Tim Barlass

Sydney

Senior Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Morning Herald. journalist. Views are my own.

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Articles

Summertime and emigratin’ ain’t easy

Jan 10, 2025 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

By Tim Barlass January 11, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Selling a house, arranging a wedding, wrapping up two jobs and emigrating to the other side of the world are all huge challenges in their own right. Try doing all three compressed into a couple of months of (an English) summer, and life gets beyond hectic. Crazier still, we did it all twice (apart from the wedding bit).
Wendy learnt to sail from a kids’ book. Now she’s taking on a notorious stretch of water for the 17th time

Dec 16, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wendy Tuck is nothing if not resilient – even in the face of a storm. The Sydney to Hobart race veteran was skippering the 70-foot yacht Da Nang-Viet Nam in the 2015–16 Clipper Round the World when a rogue wave struck. The yacht was crossing the North Pacific in huge seas with winds blowing at more than 50 knots for 24 hours.
The Sydney business turning Fiji’s beach litter into power poles

Dec 14, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Tim Barlass

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The Sydney business turning Fiji’s beach litter into power poles

Dec 14, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

By Tim Barlass December 15, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Sydney business is looking to clean up Pacific beaches with a unique recycling process, turning plastic litter into power poles and Frisbees.
He was Australia’s deadliest Battle of Britain pilot. Now, his plane will fly again

Nov 9, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

By Tim Barlass November 10, 2024 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Flight Lieutenant Paterson “Pat” Hughes shot down more German aircraft during the Battle of Britain than any other Australian pilot. Now the wreckage of his crashed Spitfire X4009 will be rebuilt at Scone, in the NSW Hunter Valley, as part of a five-year project estimated to cost $7 million.
Victoria Cross recipient Daniel Keighran to sell medal to cover family expenses

Oct 5, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

By Tim Barlass October 6, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Many families are feeling the current financial pressures but such is the state of the economy that Victoria Cross recipient and Afghanistan veteran Daniel Keighran has decided to sell all his medals. “A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering.
‘My life was destroyed’: Veteran suicide families speak out

Aug 30, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

With the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran suicide about to release its findings, six families disclose their heartbreak, their belief that the system let them down – and what they would like to see changed. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
How to look like Russell Crowe in his prime for just $75,000

Aug 11, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tim Barlass

Propstore chief operating officer Brandon Alinger said the thing that united their bidders was a love of film and television. "Some want to install these things in their home cinema, their office or some of greater aspirations of having their own museum," he said. So, is movie memorabilia a good investment? "Certainly things have appreciated over time but anything can happen. We advise people to buy what they love. We don't see a lot of people buying in this field just to speculate," Alinger said.
How to look like Russell Crowe in his prime for just $75,000

Aug 11, 2024 | theage.com.au | Tim Barlass

By Tim Barlass August 12, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ridley Scott’s ancient Roman swords-and-sandals epic Gladiator took home five Academy Awards, including best picture of 2001. Russell Crowe won best actor for playing Maximus.
May Gibbs’ first newspaper strip Bib and Bub was published 100 years ago

Aug 3, 2024 | theage.com.au | Tim Barlass

By Tim Barlass August 4, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For Bib and Bub, it all began 100 years ago. May Gibb’s first newspaper strip appeared in Sydney’s Sunday News on August 3, 1924, and she was paid £5 for the weekly half-page strip. From little acorns, oak trees grow, and Gibbs produced one Bib and Bub comic strip every week for the next 43 years.