http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/emilia-terzon/ Emilia Terzon has been ranting to anybody who’ll listen since she first learnt to speak. This being the age of 3, she was a touch developmentally delayed – but legend is she simply couldn’t get a word in edgeways until then (ranting is a condition passed down on the mother’s side).  Two decades later, she’s found a way to get paid for this ability… at least some of the time. Alongside studying political science and then a journalism Masters, she ended up working through her early 20s on an ADD-inspiring variety of mediums, including radio, magazine publishing, and even pop culture. Today, she works as a print journalist, produces and presents radio, and makes snide comments about pollies through to fashion designers in her spare time. Her passions include writing, social justice issues, cooking bad vegetarian food, and buying crocheted clothing that smells like mothballs. 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/thrifty-aussies-dont-spell-the-end-for-retail/ Thrifty spenders – or tightarses as they’re more commonly known – are pretty adept at receiving widespread social disdain. Admittedly, pinching pennies is a tricky business. One has to really embrace those nicknames, as well as the end-of-meal groans from fellow diners upon whipping out the scientific calculator. And let’s not even get started on those tried and tested anti-Semitic jokes. Now the tightarse is being targeted with another knife: the future of the Australian retail industry. No biggie. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Emilia Terzon) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/thrifty-aussies-dont-spell-the-end-for-retail/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/thrifty-aussies-dont-spell-the-end-for-retail/#item8201 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:40:11 +0000 Emilia Terzon | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Enjoy-your-porterhouse-but-consider-the-slaughterhouse/ “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” So goes a rather weary old dog of a proverb attributed to Paul McCartney. Admittedly, his sentiment makes me as misty-eyed as the next idealist softie. But in light of the latest abattoir cruelty scandal, I need to have a quiet word with Paul. “Glass walls” don’t come much clearer than the hidden footage uncovered by the ABC and subsequently splattered across our news last week. You don’t exactly need Windex to see inside the pure barbarism of NSW’s Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Emilia Terzon) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Enjoy-your-porterhouse-but-consider-the-slaughterhouse/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Enjoy-your-porterhouse-but-consider-the-slaughterhouse/#item7765 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:55:16 +0000 Emilia Terzon | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-great-organic-swindle/ If you’re anything like me, then you’re occasionally susceptible to wild fits of buying stuff that has eco-certification logos all over it. Fair Trade, carbon neutral, Flipper-friendly - essentially if it’s round, has an acronym, and is preferably some shade of green, then I’ll buy the item it’s endorsing. (Pictures of stupidly smiling animals on the packet don’t hurt, either.) “Organic” is one such trend I’ve recently been fixated on. It’s a term with an underlying philosophy - products made naturally without the use of modern synthetic inputs - that has been around for quite some time now. The concept has been around since the beginning of time. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Emilia Terzon) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-great-organic-swindle/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-great-organic-swindle/#item7112 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:40:07 +0000 Emilia Terzon | Author bios | The Punch