David Penberthy
Dave grew up in Adelaide’s southern suburbs and attended a really nice public school, Marion High, which was subsequently bulldozed during the tyrannical reign of Liberal Premier Dean Brown. He fell into journalism while not studying law at the University of Adelaide. He joined The Adelaide Advertiser as a cadet journalist in 1992 and spent his first few years on the newspaper as education reporter, industrial reporter and state political reporter.
In 1996, shortly after the election of the Howard Government, he was posted to Canberra to head the Advertiser’s parliamentary bureau. In 1999 he moved to Sydney to join The Daily Telegraph as state parliament bureau chief, a position he held for three years before his appointment as chief of staff and then as opinion editor and roving columnist for the paper. In April 2005 he became editor of The Daily Telegraph, a position he held until November last year. He is now the editor of The Punch.
When not writing about stuff or reading stuff other people have written, he can be found at home in the kitchen cooking traditional dishes from Mexico, where he lived for a year in 1986, and which after a few tequilas he will wrongly cite as his place of birth.
Articles by David Penberthy
At the end of the day, the kids caned Kevin on Q&A
The showbiz maxim about never working with children or animals was on full display tonight as our Prime Minister arrived…... Read more
How a political luddite got smashed in cyberspace
It was the week in which the words “Macquarie Banker” finally became rhyming slang after a member of the millionaire’s…... Read more
My School brawl exposes unions’ culture of mediocrity
In the mid 1990s the teachers credit union Satisfac came up with a kindly and seemingly innocent idea to celebrate…... Read more
Why Kevin Rudd will still win the election
Political predictions usually come with a face-saving asterisk, or an alarming promise that you will drop your pants in Martin…... Read more
Tony’s virginity troubles and the danger of being honest
Tony Abbott is perfectly entitled to his view as an individual - and as the father of three teenage girls…... Read more
How a likeable Prince undermined the republic
Amid the continuing debate about our national identity and our constitutional arrangements, readers might be interested in this piece written…... Read more
Police credibility decamps in a northerly direction
We should cut the coppers some slack as they grapple with the public handling of the attacks on Indian students…... Read more
In politics as in life, working women can’t win
A few years ago there was a funny little survey funded by fruitgrowers which spoke volumes about the relationship between…... Read more
Why Australia Day is rubbish
It’s the kind of thing that would get you pelted with stones in the town square in less civilised countries.…... Read more
Abbott goes green with one top idea, one dodgy gimmick
In a move reminiscent of John Howard’s “headland” speeches ahead of his successful 1996 campaign, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott last…... Read more
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