Marcus Westbury, who I’ve written about before, has noticed something special about Australia’s new defence minister.
“John Faulkner [pictured left] hasn’t changed his glasses for so long they’re almost fashionable again,” he tweets. “Do you think if I start referring to John Faulkner as ‘the hispter’ it will catch on? He has the retro ironic glasses for it.”
“It’s gonna be awesome to see those glasses in the back of an F-35 or sticking out of a tank. Cartoonists will love this,” Marcus reckons. And I reckon too.
So, dear Australian political writers and cartoonists, can we please start referring to Senator John Faulkner as “The Hipster”?
Marcus also wonders about the fate of the Rudd government’s transparency program, which Faulkner was driving in his role as Special Minister of State. “It was the most impressive thing about the Rudd government,” says Marcus. “What now?”
He has a comb-over too. They’re due for a revival.