http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/lucy-carter/ Lucy Carter started at the ABC while still at university, working as an overnight reporter and guiding the Sydney newsroom through the wee sleepy hours of the morning.  Her big break came when a chicken shop exploded three streets away at 3am, and she was able to report live from the scene in monkey print pyjama pants and ugh boots. After finishing her Broadcast Journalism degree in 2007 at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, she scored what she still thinks is one of the best jobs in the world – writing and reading the national news for triple j.  Highlights have so far been telling the nation’s youth that Barack Obama was the new US President, and reporting the time that Victorian State MP Jason Wood repeatedly said ‘orgasms’ instead of ‘organisms’ in a late night speech to parliament. As well as being a triple j newsreader, she occasionally contributes stories to ABC Radio Current Affairs programs AM, PM and The World Today.  She loves music festivals, horse riding and surfing, and has never come across a dad joke she didn’t love. 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/i-saw-myself-plastered-and-it-wasnt-pretty/ I did something pretty unusual on Saturday night.  Well, unusual for me. I had a quiet one. I declined various invitations to meet up with mates at a gig, a house party and a pub.  Instead I grabbed a likeminded friend whose liver also needed a night off. We headed to the cinema, donned some 3D goggles, sat through a pretty enjoyable movie and then headed home. Why did I ‘waste’ a perfectly good weekend party-night? Truthfully I was tired and completely happy to just throw on my comfy jeans. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Lucy Carter) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-saw-myself-plastered-and-it-wasnt-pretty/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-saw-myself-plastered-and-it-wasnt-pretty/#item1341 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:00:33 +0000 Lucy Carter | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/mind-your-language-if-youre-making-a-parse-at-me/ [*Ed’s note to Gen Y: that isn’t a typo in the headline. It’s a cool joke, and Lucy explains it further down.] I think I realised I was different when I corrected the grammar of my extremely attractive barista.  It was a Monday morning; he was frothing milk as we chatted idly about the drunken antics of our respective weekends.  All the usual stuff - the people we knew in common, the places we had almost run into each other, the quality of the cocktail jugs at various Sydney locations.  He might have been carefully watching the temperature gauge rise on that little jug of milk, but we both knew where the real heat was.  Just as I was about to casually invite him to a rock gig he dropped a clanger. ‘Yeah I like World Bar.  Dave and me were there last Thursday.’ feedback@thepunch.com.au (Lucy Carter) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/mind-your-language-if-youre-making-a-parse-at-me/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/mind-your-language-if-youre-making-a-parse-at-me/#item689 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:00:33 +0000 Lucy Carter | Author bios | The Punch