http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/kellie-connolly/ Kellie Connolly recently left Channel 9 after 13 years at the network as a news presenter and journalist and worked at Channel 10 early in her career. en Copyright 2013 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +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/dont-mention-the-war-on-freedom-of-speech/ Shut up, shut down, and keep quiet.  That’s been the disturbing theme in the news in the last week with political correctness and censorship everywhere you look.  It appears we’ve lost our sense of humour and our sense of what it means to live in a free-thinking democracy. The biggie – national anti-discrimination laws.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kellie Connolly) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-mention-the-war-on-freedom-of-speech/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-mention-the-war-on-freedom-of-speech/#item10504 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:45:32 +0000 Kellie Connolly | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-end-of-the-word-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-ok/ I was a bit miffed. And a bit embarrassed, actually.  Rejected by an op shop.  In the season for giving. You see, I’d turned up to one of their big stores, with four boxes of well-loved books. Among them were treasured Bryce Courtenays and Jeffery Archers, well preserved political tomes and autobiographies.  They were hard to part with. Books are precious to me. But we had no more room. It was time to make way for new volumes. But this charity had embarked on a new chapter too. ”No more books!” The man at the back of the shop told me. “We have too many. People just don’t read anymore. Not books anyway.” What? Could that really be true? Had the Mayan calendar been misinterpreted? Was it, in fact, the end of the physical word, not world? feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kellie Connolly) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-end-of-the-word-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-ok/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-end-of-the-word-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-ok/#item10341 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:45:00 +0000 Kellie Connolly | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/nine-ten-countdown-to-channel-nineteen/ There’s been a curious role reversal between Channel 10 and Channel Nine in the past 5 years or so, made even more compelling with James Packer’s new 18 percent stake in 10. The networks used to be opposites of the TV spectrum – Nine the heavy-weights in both budget and exposure – Ten the cut-price youngsters.  Nine had a stable of headline stars. Ten was a quiet achiever. Nine had a formidable newsroom of senior journalists. Ten had a bunch of bright, hungry 20-somethings. Then they started morphing into each other. Nine began carving away the newsroom budget, chunk by chunk. A lot of fat was shed, then a bit more. Young, ambitious 20-somethings started to feature in the 6pm line up. The tone changed from stable, solid (and sometimes predictable) to a more American, flashy, invigorated product. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kellie Connolly) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/nine-ten-countdown-to-channel-nineteen/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/nine-ten-countdown-to-channel-nineteen/#item4307 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:00:43 +0000 Kellie Connolly | Author bios | The Punch