http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/jane-worthington/ Jane Worthington grew up in the Northern NSW town of Gunnedah. She was inspired to enter journalism after a stint working on one of Australia’s last surviving independent newspapers, her hometown rag, The Namoi Valley Independent. She joined The Newcastle Herald as a cadet journalist in 1992 and went on to become a lead feature writer before travel took her abroad to work and churn out daily features for Scotland’s Edinburgh Evening News. Returning to Australia in 2001, Jane spent the next six years keeping an eye on Australia’s media as deputy director of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism, associate editor of The Walkley Magazine and producer of the Walkley Award broadcast on SBS TV. Her journalism has been recognised with Prodi Awards for feature writing and Northern NSW Journalist of the Year. In 2007, she joined Dateline as interview producer in 2007. Since making the jump to television to produce interviews for George Negus, she’s spent her days researching and her nights on the phone persuading world leaders and luminaries to speak. 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/lets-get-over-the-great-divide-between-city-and-country/ This tricky little election of ours has indeed delivered a bizarre but welcome insight into Australian country life. And no-one, least of all our country cousins, could ever have predicted such a windfall that, for the first time in a very long time, both left and right of politics are actually listening to a word or two about troubles in the bush. Thank you Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Bob Katter for reminding Australians that – yes – people actually do still live “out there”. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Jane Worthington) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lets-get-over-the-great-divide-between-city-and-country/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lets-get-over-the-great-divide-between-city-and-country/#item4035 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:50:10 +0000 Jane Worthington | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/torching-gods-country/ Lately, I’ve got to thinking about the importance Australians place in burning great things – things of immeasurable value. Take a drive to the Hunter Valley and you’ll see the ugly side of Australia’s predilection for carbon - the precious fossil fuels we peddle round the world and the huge economic power they wield in this country. Around the mining town of Muswellbrook is a landscape ravaged by mining; farmland gouged away for the sake of the big deposits beneath, its air thick with coal dust and the smell of decay. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Jane Worthington) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/torching-gods-country/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/torching-gods-country/#item898 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:25:23 +0000 Jane Worthington | Author bios | The Punch