http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/andrew-sutherland/ Andrew has previously been employed as a school teacher (briefly), a public servant (contract not renewed), an insurance consultant (sacked), Telstra employee (let go), a toga-wearing barman in a theatre restaurant and an Aussie Rules footballer (Collingwood and Oakleigh). After being told by his Telstra boss: “Sutherland, you’re fired… and promise me you won’t get another office job, I’m afraid you’re just not suited”, he went and got a job at Borders until he became a full-time father, his current position. He’s hoping to be retrenched soon. 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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/love-thy-english-neighbours/ It has been 26 years and 6000-odd episodes since Danny Ramsay first rode his Malvern Star along Ramsay Street, marking the beginning of the soap phenomenon Neighbours. That first episode, eager to impress, showed Danny experiencing a nightmare with homoerotic and incestuous overtones, about his brother Shane (in Speedos) diving to his death. Sweaty Danny thrashes around in his bed to the sounds of the decadent bucks’ party next door. Neighbours would later launch the Hollywood career of Guy Pearce and turn Kylie the talking budgie into a singing one, but for me that first instalment has been a rare highlight. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Sutherland) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/love-thy-english-neighbours/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/love-thy-english-neighbours/#item6021 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:40:02 +0000 Andrew Sutherland | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/would-you-cheerfully-kill-anyone-who-hurt-your-child/ I don’t care what you believe, what awful things you’ve seen to make you hate - if you think an aeroplane ploughing into a skyscraper full of civilians is a good thing there is something seriously wrong with you. So what was wrong with Osama bin Laden? Like Muhammad Atta, the pilot of the second plane to strike the World Trade Centre, bin Laden was an educated man from a privileged background. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Sutherland) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/would-you-cheerfully-kill-anyone-who-hurt-your-child/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/would-you-cheerfully-kill-anyone-who-hurt-your-child/#item5855 Mon, 16 May 2011 19:35:28 +0000 Andrew Sutherland | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/male-beauty-competitions-show-us-your-double-entendres/ “What girl doesn’t melt at the sight of a hot guy with a cute dog?” With those words, a testament to the complex and slightly weird sexuality of women, Cleo magazine’s annual meat wagon, its Bachelor Of The Year competition, was rolled out.  Flying thick and fast, as the announcement of the winner was made, were double entendres like: “Eamon Sullivan BEATS OFF STIFF competition to win”, “it was a HARD decision”, and “CLEO Bachelor of the Year winner REVEALED.” feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Sutherland) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/male-beauty-competitions-show-us-your-double-entendres/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/male-beauty-competitions-show-us-your-double-entendres/#item5705 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:40:36 +0000 Andrew Sutherland | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/warning-this-could-turn-you-vegetarian/ I am not a vegetarian. But I’m trying to be one because the killing of animals bothers me. As a city-bred child the first time I saw an animal being slaughtered was while seeing the film Apocalypse Now, and I had trouble coping with watching something die. “At what exact point did its life end?”, I remember thinking. It was the final scene in the Cambodian jungle, the setting for insanity and hell, when the poor cow was hacked gradually to death by a slight man with a machete. The initial impact was a mere tap. The cow wobbles a little, its legs faltering. The second and third strikes open up the back of its neck revealing the spine and a translucent red, and the legs give way to the huge dying mass above them. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Sutherland) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/warning-this-could-turn-you-vegetarian/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/warning-this-could-turn-you-vegetarian/#item4941 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:55:54 +0000 Andrew Sutherland | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/men-and-sex-not-healthy-relationship/ Bettina Arndt asked: “Why do men take such risks for the sake of sex?”. Novelist Philip Roth wrote: “Every mistake a man can make usually has a sexual accelerator”. What is it about men and sex? The problem for males begins early. When a boy reaches puberty he’s almost immediately at his sexual peak: too young an age to negotiate sexual agreements with girls his own age who are likely to reject his clumsy advances with disdain, and go off to pine romantically for older boys. So it is with a sense of rejection, inordinate levels of sexual desire and accompanying guilt that he abandons himself to the sordid adolescent world of chronic masturbation - “a world of matted handkerchiefs, crumpled Kleenex and stained pyjamas”, said the famous Alexander Portnoy. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Sutherland) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/men-and-sex-not-healthy-relationship/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/men-and-sex-not-healthy-relationship/#item4878 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:35:31 +0000 Andrew Sutherland | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-would-not-like-to-be-under-the-sea/ Is it un-Australian to be scared of the ocean? If so, I’m a traitor of the worst kind. As New Year’s Eve countdowns by carefree, salt-encrusted water rats echoed around our beach resorts, I was thinking of the Poseidon Adventure: “... five, four, three, two, one, Happy New… Oh, Christ, a tidal wave!”... and the passengers who are having the most sex, drinking the most, laughing the loudest and having all the fun die horribly. Aussie surf champ Stephanie Gilmore considers the sea a refuge from nutcases with iron bars - but really it is a cold and forbidding place. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Andrew Sutherland) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-would-not-like-to-be-under-the-sea/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-would-not-like-to-be-under-the-sea/#item4840 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:30:11 +0000 Andrew Sutherland | Author bios | The Punch