http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/ashleigh-wilson/ Before starting in newspapers, Ashleigh Wilson considered himself a professional jazz pianist. Then fate intervened – that is, he failed to get accepted into the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. So he went on to serve as a copyboy, a now defunct journalistic hazing program, at News Limited in Sydney. In early 2000 he joined The Australian. He worked out of the Brisbane office before moving north to become the paper’s Darwin correspondent, a tumultuous period bookended by the Falconio trial and the intervention. He returned in 2008 to Sydney, where he is now deputy Arts editor. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/annie-leibovitz-still-life/ She’s shot the Queen, Obama, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush’s cabinet and countless celebrities, not to mention a famously intimate portrait of John Lennon, curled up naked against Yoko Ono, just hours before the singer was shot. But even though her best known work features the kind of faces likely to grace the covers of Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, Annie Leibovitz has long resisted the label of celebrity photographer. Still, there are some things she can’t ignore. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Ashleigh Wilson) Article, Behind the picture http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/annie-leibovitz-still-life/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/annie-leibovitz-still-life/#item4496 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:40:33 +0000 Ashleigh Wilson | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-peter-garrett-lost-the-support-of-the-art-world/ I once encountered Peter Garrett on the way to Coober Pedy. I was shooting down the Stuart Highway, several hours through a tough, dry, apocalyptic part of central Australia, when mine shafts, mounds and machinery appeared over the horizon. My iPod, running on shuffle, picked the mood perfectly: Blue Sky Mining. On that day, the Midnight Oil frontman was in the right place at the right time. But since he entered politics, recruited by Mark Latham, Garrett’s timing has been off. Some of his strumbles are well-known: messing up the insulation scheme, or saying in front of Steve Price that Labor would ``change it all’’ if it won power. His responsibilities were first reduced in 2007, when Kevin Rudd handed responsibility for climate change to Penny Wong, a shrinkage later repeated when Greg Combet was asked to fix insulation. Now he’s lost arts too. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Ashleigh Wilson) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-peter-garrett-lost-the-support-of-the-art-world/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-peter-garrett-lost-the-support-of-the-art-world/#item4015 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:35:52 +0000 Ashleigh Wilson | Author bios | The Punch