David Southwell
David Southwell is a journalist, sub editor, and blogger at news.com.au. His primary duties are to scout for free food left over from marketing meetings in the kitchen and search the picture wires for bikini shots. All in the line of work, of course!
He occasionally posts at his Sub in the Pub blog and likes to collect old tea cups and newspapers on his desk.
He has thoughtfully laid a trail of typos to trace his journalistic career back through news.com.au, AAP and the Balmain Village Voice, where he was a distinguished morning tea correspondent.
Articles by David Southwell
Travel lessons: a broader view on fat dumb Americans
Does travel broaden the mind or is it a merely a generally pleasant meandering about in search of the least…... Read more
A Night at the Ballot: Election 2010, the musical
Having recently been in New York I am able to present the playbill lyrics of a show that opened off-off-off-off-off…... Read more
There’s no more nobility in travelling on the cheap
Among the many hazards that you might encounter during a long overseas trip, perhaps the worst one is starting to…... Read more
Come on RBA, get those rates up you good thing
Now I have vacated the job of helping edit news.com.au, let me reveal my dreadful desire to write an almost…... Read more
If climate change is a battle, let’s have a war
IF climate change really represents a threat to our civilisation comparable to the Nazis than it is time for us…... Read more
Thanksgiving, Australia style: 10 things I’m thankful for
Today in the US it’s Thanksgiving, where Americans gather around tables groaning under turkeys the size of footstools and serve…... Read more
Rednecks! The new racist term for ordinary Australians
As a moderator of comments for news.com.au I see a lot of intolerance expressed in the debate over asylum seeker…... Read more
Greentopia 2050: How I became one with a lettuce
Everyone must radically change the way they live - and even their culture - to save the planet, the Greens…... Read more
Unapologetically tough and unapologetically fair
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today said that the Government was moving with “the utmost urgent speed” to fix what might…... Read more
Communism isn’t cool, and never has been
Near Sydney’s Circular Quay sits the Hitler Bar. The door sign has Hitler’s name in Germanic script on a swastika…... Read more
Increase in asylum seekers is a problem of Rudd’s making
The Pacific Solution has been replaced by the Indian Ocean non-solution. In the ABC documentary The Howard Years those responsible…... Read more
Even the Americans are doing better comedy than us
Aussies consider themselves as pretty funny but sadly Australian TV comedy is no laughing matter. Perhaps that’s not true if…... Read more
Top ten ways to describe New Zealand to Americans
It’s a case of life imitating art or, more precisely, life almost imitating a cult Kiwi musical comedy duo’s US…... Read more
Fill the void with a remote-controlled beverage system
It’s no doubt a mark of my innate stoicism that I have until this point lived mostly happily without the…... Read more
Beautiful one day, decaffeinated the next
Queensland is many ways a much more reasonable facsimile of civilisation than it used to be. However I recently discovered…... Read more
League wins the running battle of the rugby codes
Against my better judgment I turned on the rugby union on Saturday night to see the Wallabies vs the All…... Read more
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Would you kill for a job?
Who would work in an abattoir? Most of us have done jobs we didn’t want to do because we needed…
Friday Dilemma: child cruelty or harmless fun?
Parenting. It’s the new oneupmanship. Ah, how quaint the days now seem when parents could raise…
Hipsters with hip replacements
Someone once told me that when people reach a certain age they begin dressing in the manner they did…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
