http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/marea-donnelly/ After almost 30 years - on and off - employed across News Ltd publications in Sydney, Marea Donnelly is obviously addicted to old-fashioned journalism. She is an early journalism graduate from Charles Sturt University (back when it was Mitchell College) and later a senior journalist and feature writer on the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. While reporting on virtually every subject except sport, Marea especially enjoyed researching and writing in-depth personality stories, before moving across to newspaper sub-editing a few years ago. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +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/Gillard-attracts-misoygny-like-kitchens-attract-ladies/ As the controversial episode of At Home with Julia aired last night, it became more and more clear that if the Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard is recalled for anything besides perceived incompetence, it should be for her role as a lightning rod for Australia’s unashamed public misogyny. Hear the shrieks. “What do you mean, ‘misogyny’? We’ve got a woman prime minister,’’ screams the defence, quietly adding, “not that she’s any bloody good.” Fair comment. What isn’t fair comment, even in the dirt of politics, is public ranting against the witch, the bitch, and Juliar. And then there is ABCTV’s screen insult to both comedy and an intelligent woman who leads the country. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Marea Donnelly) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Gillard-attracts-misoygny-like-kitchens-attract-ladies/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Gillard-attracts-misoygny-like-kitchens-attract-ladies/#item6766 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:50:23 +0000 Marea Donnelly | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/teachers-unionist-who-wants-to-sack-bad-teachers/ As a union organiser for teachers, Gary Zadkovich found himself counselling emotional public school principals forced to sack bad teachers. Years later he remains vehement bad, or ``under-performing’‘, teachers in public schools must be identified, and removed if they cannot lift their standards. This could require professional support for up to 10 per cent of teachers. Those who fail to improve would be dismissed. An industry description of under-performers as either ``can’t do or won’t do’’ could well apply to his union, the NSW Teachers Federation, with its image as an oppositional force to educational change. Under intense political pressure for national school league tables, Zadkovich has emerged as a public education advocate also prepared to publicly refute the Federation’s image as a defender of every teacher at any cost. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Marea Donnelly) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/teachers-unionist-who-wants-to-sack-bad-teachers/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/teachers-unionist-who-wants-to-sack-bad-teachers/#item1122 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:40:33 +0000 Marea Donnelly | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-my-ministerial-career-was-destroyed/ IF NSW Labor MP Matt Brown keeps a perverse Mr Hyde buried deep in his psyche, then his borderline-nerd Dr Jekyll has kept the monster tightly wrapped for the past year. It seems incongruous such an earnestly decent bloke achieved notoriety for the grossly bizarre accusation of stripping to his underpants to ``titty-f..k’’ an older female colleague, calling on the woman’s adult daughter to watch during a drunken party in his parliamentary office. In the aftermath, Brown stepped down as Police Minister after a record-setting three days. In the year he’s had to reflect on perhaps the biggest party he ever hosted, Brown has only one regret: that he ever invited colleagues back to his office for a drink. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Marea Donnelly) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-my-ministerial-career-was-destroyed/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-my-ministerial-career-was-destroyed/#item900 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:55:38 +0000 Marea Donnelly | Author bios | The Punch