http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/david-jones/ David Jones is a Walkley Award winning journalist who is currently executive producer of the afternoon Drive program at radio station 2GB in Sydney. He started in journalism in 1964 at the Sydney Sun newspaper as a 14-year-old weekend copy boy. Over more than 40 years, he has worked in newspapers, television and radio including periods as a news correspondent in New York and London. For much of the past 20 years, David worked as a political press secretary and in high level corporate public affairs. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:13 +0000 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:13 +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/happy-birthday-frank-mcgovern/ Let’s never forget men like Frank McGovern and Gavin Campbell. We’re losing them so quickly now, these veterans of World War II. Frank and Gavin are both proud Perth men. Not the city – I write here of the light cruiser, HMAS Perth, sunk by the Japanese at the Battle of Sunda Strait in February 1942. Frank is having his ninetieth birthday party in Sydney this week. Gavin, 88 will be there with Frank’s family and friends to help Frank celebrate this personal landmark. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Jones) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/happy-birthday-frank-mcgovern/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/happy-birthday-frank-mcgovern/#item1362 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:40:43 +0000 David Jones | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/americas-mastery-of-free-speech-even-for-maniacs/ You’ve got to hand it to those Americans. For them, there is much more to democracy than theory. It’s there to be practised and even better if it can be done in the streets. A now-ageing generation took democracy to the streets and forced the politicians to bring an unpopular war in Vietnam to an end. And against the odds they changed America and world history campaigning for civil rights laws that paved the way for a black American president. And though small in number by comparison, those freedom-of-speech loving Americans were back in Washington streets at the weekend to protest against the policies of that same black president. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Jones) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/americas-mastery-of-free-speech-even-for-maniacs/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/americas-mastery-of-free-speech-even-for-maniacs/#item1206 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:35:08 +0000 David Jones | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/ Just a few years ago I ended up in Warsaw on a business trip to Poland where my former boss Eric Dodd had been invited to talk to top government officials about reforms to Poland’s embryonic private health system. As a journo and an amateur student of history, I was astonished to learn that our hotel in Warsaw was located on what was previously the Jewish Ghetto in World War II from which tends of thousands were shipped to their deaths. And just a matter of a few hours drive away was the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews and gypsies were imprisoned in the most horrific conditions and slaughtered in the gas chambers. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Jones) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/#item1166 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:08:18 +0000 David Jones | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/brave-woman-who-revealed-james-hardies-fines-sham/ James Hardie’s bosses should forget it if they imagine their company’s descent into a self-inflicted public relations purgatory will end any time soon. It’s not going to happen while there are victims of asbestos-related diseases and their families capable of asking questions no-one in authority seems to anticipate or is prepared to answer without being pushed. You see, so many of the people affected by the asbestos scourge are just so bloody courageous, eloquent and insightful in projecting the enormity of their suffering and loss—combined with an unrelenting quest for justice. feedback@thepunch.com.au (David Jones) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/brave-woman-who-revealed-james-hardies-fines-sham/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/brave-woman-who-revealed-james-hardies-fines-sham/#item987 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:50:11 +0000 David Jones | Author bios | The Punch