http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/paul-wilson/ Professor Paul Wilson OAM is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Chair of Criminology at Bond University. He holds a BA Hons (Canterbury), MA Hons (Canterbury) and PhD (Qld). His previous academic positions include Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University 1993-2001,Foundation Dean of Arts, QUT 1991-1993 and Acting Director, Australian Institute of Criminology 1986-1991 and Director of Research. Professor Wilson was recently on the Advisory Board for the NRMA. Currently he is a consultant to a private security organisation, was a regular columnist for the Courier-Mail for 6 years and is a media commentator on crime and social issues. He is the recipient, with a team of public university colleagues, of a major ARC Collaborative Research Grant for The Sibling Study which is a longitudinal research project examining the determinants of juvenile offending. In 2003 he was awarded the Medal of The order of Australia for Services to Education particularly as a writer and lecturer in the field of criminology. 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/devils-bikers-and-the-national-press-club/ What a sin! The National Press Club actually had the temerity to invite bikers and, an even worse devil, an academic, to address their members! After decades of weekly rants from pompous politicians and bloated businessmen they broke from tradition and dived into the dark side. Even worse the bikers and academic questioned the wisdom of politicians making stupid laws. As if our moral and upright legislators would ever push the “lock them up and throw away the key button” just to win over the law and order vote. But make no mistake the South Australian and New South Wales laws are particularly stupid. Forget about the blatant violation that these laws bring to the justice system and just think about their consequences. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Paul Wilson) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/devils-bikers-and-the-national-press-club/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/devils-bikers-and-the-national-press-club/#item860 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:44:37 +0000 Paul Wilson | Author bios | The Punch