http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/simon-j-green/ Simon J. Green has been a video producer for four years, a writer for 20. His written work has appeared on US based The Nervous Breakdown, ABC’s Ramp Up, PBSfm, DVDbits.com and a host of other online bits and pieces. His copyrighting brought Freddo the Frog to life, played with Virgin Mobile and wandered around the city for visitvictoria. As a producer, he’s keen to link the private sector back to film and TV, and is blowing things up through web video. His video work includes Hewlett-Packard, the Good Friday Appeal, audio for Channel 10 and Hunkmania: male strippers. Touch his base: @simonjongreen 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/the-world-has-always-been-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket/ Margaret Court was right - we’re all going to Hell. But she wasn’t the first to tell us, we’ve been going to Hell for centuries. Here Simon J Green digs up the transcripts of the Margaret Courts of their day. February, 2012 The state of the planet today makes me sick. Back in my day, children respected their elders. If you didn’t show the right amount of respect, you were given the strap. I got bamboo across my palm thrice in school and it did me the world of good. Something else that made me the sensible person I am today: a decent education. The corner stone of that education was maths. If more kids were taught mathematics in school, there’d be less drop outs, less teen pregnancies and more graduates going to university. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Simon J Green) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-world-has-always-been-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-world-has-always-been-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket/#item7671 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:35:17 +0000 Simon J Green | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-a-proud-aussie-and-i-dont-give-a-stuff-about-sport/ Yesterday, on TODAY, Mia Freedman showed antipathy towards the Tour de France and its Australian winner, Cadel Evans. She said she didn’t care, and put forward the idea that maybe he wasn’t a hero to everyone. Ms Freedman followed the interview up with a blog post on her site, Mamamia, explaining she’d been thumped with heavy criticism and cruelty online as a result. Mia reiterated her stance that she, personally and publicly, doesn’t think sporting achievements make for heroes, and that for her, a hero is someone who toils at their own expense to better the lives of others. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Simon J Green) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-a-proud-aussie-and-i-dont-give-a-stuff-about-sport/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-a-proud-aussie-and-i-dont-give-a-stuff-about-sport/#item6369 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:50:43 +0000 Simon J Green | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/I-might-be-an-elite-tosser-but-at-least-I-can-spell/ Uh Oh, I Think I’m Elite. This morning, I was minding my own business, reading The Punch, when I came across an article decrying the Elite. I read on, looking for clues to who these Elite might be. They appeared in several articles, all different topics: The NBN (“We country folk might not be the Elite, but we still use the Internet.”), Carbon Tax (“It’s all right for those Elite to cop an extra $100 on their power bill; they can afford it.”) and even feminism (“The inner-city Elite can handle women in short skirts, but we outer-suburb types have needs the wife isn’t fulfilling!”). I linked together some of the factors that make one Elite, and came to a horrible conclusion. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Simon J Green) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/I-might-be-an-elite-tosser-but-at-least-I-can-spell/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/I-might-be-an-elite-tosser-but-at-least-I-can-spell/#item5929 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:50:22 +0000 Simon J Green | Author bios | The Punch