The Punch Team
This is the byline all six of us use (Ant, Tory M, Evil Tory, Penbo, Lucy and Dan) when we work collaboratively on live blogs, stories and campaigns.
Articles by The Punch Team
Punch on: Open thread 08/02/2012
Sexy men smoke. It’s a fact. James Dean, Jon Hamm, Humphrey Bogart and Shane Warne (feel free to add to…... Read more
Friday dilemma: Should smacking be illegal?
Anonymous says: Before I became a parent I thought this question was an absolute no brainer. A little smack here…... Read more
Seven simple things good bosses should do
Who wants to work for Ken Grenda? Us. (Shhh, don’t tell Penbo.) The Victorian businessman recently sold off the transit…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 31/01/2012
Between the Prime Minister’s shoe and Novak Djokovic’s shirt, we can easily wildly generalise that clothing theft is soaring across…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 30/01/2012
Morning, Punchers. Ant Sharwood here. Last Friday, journalist Amanada Shalala made a fair point on the TV show The Drum.…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 27/01/2012
Have you chucked a sickie today? We bet you’re one of many hundreds of thousands who do! While we recover…... Read more
How Australian are you? Take our test…
Around Australia today as the snags sizzle and the beers flow cold and bitter, people will also be becoming Australian…... Read more
Wednesday afternoon fun at the expense of Albo
This is doing the rounds of Twitter, thanks to the Liberal Party YouTube channel. It’s pretty funny. The rip off…... Read more
Fire up the barbie, it’s Ostraya Day!
Our national day has become somewhat of a chance to navel gaze. To profoundly ponder who we were, who we…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 23/01/2012
Welcome to Monday, Punchers and a belated Happy Chinese New Year to all. Speaking of the Chinese New Year, did…... Read more
Friday dilemma: Can I wear jeans to a funeral?
Today’s dilemma is unusually sombre, but here goes. What’s the right thing to wear to a funeral these days? We…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 20/01/12
Are you a morning person or an evening person? Plenty has been written about the pros and cons of different…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 19/01/12
Wikipedia (i/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or i/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ wik-i-pee-dee-ə) is a free, collaborative, multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 18/01/2012
It’s Wednesday. It’s Wednesday. Yay for Wednesday. Arguably the most hopeful day of the week. Two days closer to the…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 17/01/12
Facebook is replete with all things grim and morbid. Attention-seeking status updates, almost as much woe-is-me as look-at-me. Now the…... Read more
Punch on: Open Thread 16/01/2012
Good morning, welcome to the third week of January. We’re still scratching our heads wondering how on earth, in 2012,…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 12/01/2012
Welcome to Thursday, Punchers! Today’s topic for discussion: “singing in public”. Or, in other words, getting your karaoke on. Like,…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 09/01/12
White supremacists from around the world are set to descend on Brisbane in April for the Hammered Music Festival. A…... Read more
Friday Dilemma: Do brides get to be dictators?
Welcome to our regular Friday moral dilemma. This week: How much power do brides have over their bridesmaids? Is it…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 22/12/2011
We keep hearing that retail sales are flat in the lead-up to Christmas. We also keep hearing that more and…... Read more
Wail of a time in North Korea
It’s a sad day in North Korea. In truly Orwellian scenes, North Koreans are playing the game of of “I…... Read more
A year after Christmas Island, another tragedy at sea
It’s almost exactly a year since the Christmas Island tragedy, when dozens of asylum seekers died on Australia’s doorstep. In…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 19/12/2011
Christopher Hitchens has been described as truculent, clever, brave, a radical, an ex-Trotskyist, left-wing, right-wing, iconoclast, an enemy of religion,…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 15/12/2011
A former Sun editor has had an almighty crack at the Guardian, after the latest twist in the News of…... Read more
Biggest Moments of 2011 #10 Wall St is a campground
What happened Activists formed a movement whose broad, and loosely defined aim, was to protest against the inequality caused by…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 08/12/2011
How funny is this Christmas pug? Will it be enough of a distraction to throw you off today’s word of…... Read more
The long road that leads away from Struggle Street
News.com.au has today published the results of its exclusive Cost of Living survey, and the results are a major eye-opener.…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 05/12/11
Goodbye weekend, hello new working week. That’s just our way of saying happy Monday, Punchers! Did anyone overindulge this weekend?…... Read more
Friday dilemma: does pollie deserve a cracker?
OK, we’ve been avoiding this topic because we have a very strong inkling the conversation will go only one way.…... Read more
Motherland in decline
This video does not make for happy viewing. It depicts a British Mum, who quite possibly is intoxicated, and her…... Read more
Friday dilemma: lick the pickle or flick the pickle?
It’s been a big, long angry week with some huge issues on the agenda. This should lighten the tone somewhat.…... Read more
Friday dilemma: Hey dude, you bumped that car
On a scale of one to ten, how much of a bad person am I? After spending at least ten…... Read more
Punch Q & A: A fraction too much fission over uranium
The Labor Party is set to backflip on dealing uranium to countries that have not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 15/11/2011
The Punch loves a good travel trend. Especially when it involves camping. News.com.au reported yesterday that camping in other people’s…... Read more
Friday dilemma: Should I snub the two-faced host?
So a Puncher got invited to a big birthday bash a little while ago. The invitation was sent over Facebook.…... Read more
Punch Q&A: Should we panic over European meltdown?
The markets are melting down again. The ASX 200 fell $33 billion, or around 3 per cent yesterday, on the…... Read more
Friday Dilemma: How to reward a Melb Cup angel?
By now, you’re sick of the Cup, we’re sick of the Cup. But here’s a doozy of a dilemma regarding…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 31/10/2011
Welcome to Monday y’all. While most of Australia spent the weekend in a bad mood after missed flights, delayed holidays…... Read more
Why bogans like Harvey Norman and other mysteries
Boganomics: Why Bogans Like The Things They Do is another not-quite-scientific look at bogans from the same bastards who brought…... Read more
Friday dilemma: Is it ever OK to have an affair?
Gwyneth Paltrow thinks good people have affairs. In a recent interview at the Venice Film Festival (where she sashayed down…... Read more
Punch Q&A: Are we alone?
With a total absence of intelligent life in the Capital Hill region of Canberra, we thought we’d ask a Canberra-based…... Read more
Friday’s Dilemma: Hate Qantas or the workers?
Anonymous writes: Dear Punch. Please help me properly direct my anger. I’m set to fly to Sydney in a few…... Read more
Mirabella shoots Mission Accomplished-style goal
Sophie Mirabella has had a big week here at The Punch. Her piece having a go at the Aussie copycat…... Read more
Carbon tax reax: It’s all over bar the shouting
And you can be sure the shouting’s not over yet. Before the carbon tax begins on July 1, 2012, we…... Read more
A quick Punch guide to the Rena oil spill
The toxic oil spill in the Bay of Plenty will leave tonnes of dirty, sticky fuel on New Zealand beaches.…... Read more
Friday dilemma: The customer is always right
Customer service. Big chain stores like Myer and DJs don’t worry about it. And GASP clothing have tried embraced the…... Read more
Punch on: Open thread 07/10/2011
A weekend full of sport brought us a dull-ish start to the week in news.The Andrew Bolt case left Tory…... Read more
A heartfelt goodbye to the Apple of our eye
Steve Jobs has died at the age 56. The technology mogul who founded the Apple Company with childhood friend Steve…... Read more
When too much tax is barely enough, here’s some more
The Government is transparently attempting to bore us to death with tax talk as part of this sop to Rob…... Read more
Grand Final Weekend: Open thread
If sport were food, this weekend would be the equivalent of a 17-course degustation. The menu? Two grand finals -…... Read more
Facebook Recommendations
Read all about it
Punch live
Up to the minute Twitter chatter
Tip for young journos. Have a short CV. A page, two max.
@DarrenFerrari @andrewcatsaras And so he should be. He might be the chap humming in the background to the end of the recording.
Recent posts
The latest and greatest
New speaker’s slack clobber, old speaker clobbers slackers
Peter Slipper, draped in black in a manner most young voters will not see outside Hogwarts, has dramatically…
Snappy 60th birthday to our most fun newspaper
Life is far from dull in the Northern Territory. Or if it is, we’ll never know. And that’s…
There’s no evidence sex-for-cab-fares is a trend
Fifteen years ago when one of your girlfriends had a few too many Illusion shots standard practice was…
Nosebleed Section
choice ringside rantings
From: City vs country: What would you change your life for?
Dieter Moeckel says:
We made the tree change from Darwin to Wonbah more than 15 years ago. After fencing, a road, and couple of dams our money was gone. Super is enough to live comfortably. We have geese growing old and stringy the only one that made it to the pot committed Kamakazi by flying into a tree; the chooks are… [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
