http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/clementine-ford/ Clementine Ford is a freelance writer, broadcaster and troublemaker based in Melbourne. She enjoys cups of tea on stormy summer afternoons, men with beards and the collected works of Nancy Mitford. You can read more of her work at http://www.clementineford.com.au or follow her on Twitter @clementine_ford.  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/bali-is-paradise-lost-for-middle-class-white-people/ Life can be very cruel sometimes, particularly when it comes to middle class white people and their admirable struggle to find somewhere exotic and worldly where they can just relax while enjoying some budget cocktails and the occasional Unique Cultural Experience™. Poor Carolyn Webb learned that the hard way this week when The Age published her thoughtful, well considered and entirely well researched travel piece on Bali, a place she’s never wanted to go to. You know how it is. You work tirelessly all year round, saving enough pennies so you can board a budget airline to one of the cheap, tropical paradises dotted around Australia in the hope that you can just let it all hang out, catch some rays and for one brief moment forget how hard it is back home with a stable economy propping up your solid income. Of course, you don’t want to go to one of those shitholes like Bali or Thailand, because you know from fourth hand anecdotal experience that other people have been there and hated it, plus got bum sick in the first three days because the natives didn’t bother posting signs reminding them not to drink the tap water. Rude. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Clementine Ford) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bali-is-paradise-lost-for-middle-class-white-people/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bali-is-paradise-lost-for-middle-class-white-people/#item7023 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:40:53 +0000 Clementine Ford | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-dear-trevor-letter/ Dear Trevor Grace, I write to commend you on your candidacy in the upcoming SA state election. For too long, our government has been a slave to the neo-leftist, baby hating and quite frankly DISGUSTING collection of man-hating feminists intent on destroying every beautiful soul chosen by God to populate this green planet. And I say green because as you so rightly hint at on your website, climate change is nothing but a LIE perpetuated by beardy-weirdies intent on taxing the hard working because their own laziness and pursuit of the ARTS means they can neither afford air-conditioning nor a house to put it in. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Clementine Ford) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-dear-trevor-letter/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-dear-trevor-letter/#item2489 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:35:20 +0000 Clementine Ford | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ladies-please-forget-that-you-have-a-sex-drive/ Andrew Bolt is concerned. Frankly, he’s quite beside himself. As if he didn’t have enough to worry about with the endless squawking from the Doomsday Brigade and their so-called ‘scientists’ fretting about ‘climate change’, when everyone knows it’s naturally occurring heat and why on earth should anyone – let alone large, multinational corporations run by hard-working, faceless billionaires whose fortunes have been built on the back of corporate environmental irresponsibility – have to apologise for that? And don’t even get him started on the gross incompetence of the Federal Government.. Honestly, sometimes it’s just like beating his head against a brick wall. Is he the only one who cares about this godforsaken country? But now they’ve gone and given him something else to bite his nails about. You know who ‘they’ are. The stalking, predatory creatures with nothing but lust on their minds and the sweet scent of young flesh propelling them forward. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Clementine Ford) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ladies-please-forget-that-you-have-a-sex-drive/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ladies-please-forget-that-you-have-a-sex-drive/#item2329 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:02:25 +0000 Clementine Ford | Author bios | The Punch