http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/david-bradbury/ David has lived in Western Sydney all his life. He lives inClaremont Meadows, in the heart of the Lindsay electorate, with his wife Kylie and four young children. David is a graduate of the University of Sydney, holding an Arts Degree and an Honours Degree in Law. He has also undertaken postgraduate studies in taxation law. Prior to his election to Federal Parliament, David was a Senior Associate practising in taxation law with the corporate law firm Blake Dawson. Having served as a councillor on Penrith City Council for nine years, David has twice been elected Mayor of the City of Penrith. David previously served as the chair of the Caucus Economics Committee and was a member of the House of Representatives Economics Committee, the House of Representatives Communications Committee and the Joint Public Accounts and Audit Committee. Following the 2010 Federal Election, David was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +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/we-ve-created-jobs-and-been-spared-a-recession/ Fresh from declaring that “climate change is crap”, the Opposition has trawled through their repertoire of One Nation emails to emerge with a version of recent economic history that airbrushes out the Global Financial Crisis.  This denial theory being peddled by the Opposition is that the “GFC was crap”.  If you listen and watch closely, everything they say and do is based upon this single “article of denial” – that the Global Recession was a figment of Labor’s imagination.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Bradbury) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-ve-created-jobs-and-been-spared-a-recession/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-ve-created-jobs-and-been-spared-a-recession/#item5793 Sun, 08 May 2011 19:50:47 +0000 David Bradbury | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/some-of-the-spectators-are-as-bad-as-on-field-thugs/ Conduct on the sporting field often reflects the values of our society. As a young lad growing up in Western Sydney and attending Catholic Schools in the 1980s and 1990s it was almost pre-ordained that I would play rugby league - the game that the Patrician Brothers taught me was the game “they played in heaven”. While the behaviour I witnessed on the sporting field was less than saintly, rugby league became a great training ground for me and many of my team mates as we sought to grow and develop as young boys on the road to manhood. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Bradbury) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/some-of-the-spectators-are-as-bad-as-on-field-thugs/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/some-of-the-spectators-are-as-bad-as-on-field-thugs/#item1290 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:55:39 +0000 David Bradbury | Author bios | The Punch