http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/scott-weber/ Scott Weber is the Vice President of the Police Association of NSW and works at a Sergeant with the Marrickville LAC in Sydney’s inner-west 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/who-you-calling-a-wowser-kristina/ Police officers are called a lot of names, but when the NSW Premier Kristina Keneally this week called us ‘wowsers’ for launching a campaign to close pubs at 3am, we were left scratching our heads. Maybe something got lost in the translation to ocker for our Premier, but according to my research   the term originally referred to annoying and disruptive people – the sort of people an alcohol lock-out would attempt to manage. In more recent times, the term evolved to refer to the ‘pious’, a fair description of the hotel lobby who seems to run NSW, who (with a straight face) attempted to argue that thousands of jobs would be lost if people were told to go home before the sun comes up. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Scott Weber) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/who-you-calling-a-wowser-kristina/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/who-you-calling-a-wowser-kristina/#item2757 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:01 +0000 Scott Weber | Author bios | The Punch