http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/tory-maguire/ Tory Maguire joined The Daily Telegraph in Sydney in 2000 as a Copy Girl – one of the last in the news room to answer to the name “Copy” and spend most of the day running to the shops to buy cigarettes for senior staff. After completing a cadetship in late 2001 Tory was sent to Canberra where she covered federal politics and general news for the Telegraph, including the Canberra bush fires, the 2004 Federal Election, and the devastation in Thailand after the Asian Tsunami. Her last months in Canberra were spent chronicling the dying days of the Mark Latham era. After three and a half years in the Press Gallery, Tory returned to Sydney to join the Telegraph’s editorial team. She transferred from Canberra to Sydney via Gallipoli, Turkey, where as a certifiable history nut she had the great pleasure of covering the 90th anniversary of Anzac Day. Back in Sydney on the Telegraph’s “back bench” Tory had particular responsibility for the paper’s political coverage. Her roles included Night Editor, Assistant Editor, and Assistant Editor (Political Affairs). For most of those four years Tory also had a weekly column on the opinion pages of the paper, with a broad brief that spanned political policy to pop culture. In April 2009 she was appointed Deputy Editor of The Punch. 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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/theres-no-evidence-sex-for-cab-fares-is-a-trend/ Fifteen years ago when one of your girlfriends had a few too many Illusion shots standard practice was to put her in a cab, give the driver her address and $20 and pat yourself on the back for being a responsible friend. You wouldn’t do that now. Not if you cared about her well being at all. Trust between taxi drivers and passengers has been worn down to a new low, typified by comments yesterday from a Perth cabbie, who after being acquitted of involvement in a sexual assault said it was becoming more and more common for taxi drivers to be offered sexual favours in exchange for fares. It’s one of those “trends” that’s impossible to quantify. No woman is ever going to admit to anyone that when she found herself $10 short of a cab fare after the work Christmas party she settled the debt with a quick sexual act. It is a highly unlikely response to a situation. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/theres-no-evidence-sex-for-cab-fares-is-a-trend/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/theres-no-evidence-sex-for-cab-fares-is-a-trend/#item7708 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:46 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/life-slips-by-while-youre-filming-it-on-your-phone/ Some friends of mine had lunch on Saturday with a mate who spent so much time artfully composing photos of the gathering to post on Facebook they never got to have an actual conversation. It was as if my friends were just attractive extras, hired to play a part in this bloke’s nicely curated published version of his excellent life. I’ve also written before about paying hundreds of dollars for a great experience only to miss it because you can’t bring yourself to switch off your iPhone. It’s a modern curse. And in cases like these the greatest danger is your friends will be busy next time you suggest a photo-shoot, neatly disguised as a catch-up. But what happens when the urge to document an event gets in the way of saving someone’s life? There is a terrible story out of the flood-affected Queensland town of Roma this morning about about a woman who was swept away by raging waters while six brave, still-connected-to-reality men tried desperately to save her. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/life-slips-by-while-youre-filming-it-on-your-phone/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/life-slips-by-while-youre-filming-it-on-your-phone/#item7698 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:25:55 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/can-you-be-a-different-kind-of-girl-when-youre-53/ In 2008 a journalist from Vanity Fair said the thought of sex with a then-50-year-old Madonna “seems like a fetish” - presumably because she was then already “old”. Yet there she was at 2012 Super Bowl half time with pom poms, gladiator outfits, military drummers, a gospel choir and loads of cameos from other stars singing about being a “different kind of girl” in her new song. The general consensus was she knocked the half-time show right out of the park. Who said it’s inappropriate for a 53-year-old woman to dress like a gothic cheerleader? Maybe 50 is the new 25. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/can-you-be-a-different-kind-of-girl-when-youre-53/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/can-you-be-a-different-kind-of-girl-when-youre-53/#item7691 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:10:13 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-comedy-of-errors-thats-not-very-funny/ In three days the whole Labor Caucus is due in Canberra to break out the white boards and textas and brainstorm some policy ideas for the year, then share a sausage sizzle at The Lodge. The MPs who’ve been summoned would be forgiven for demanding one of the areas up for discussion should be how the Prime Minister intends to turn around what’s been a terrible start to the year. They’d be well within their rights to say, actually we’re not the problem Prime Minister. In the last week since Julia Gillard’s office set off one of the ugliest events in recent political history, the PM’s operation appears to be in a constant state of SNAFU. Let’s not relive the Tony Hodges affair, except to say it has not been successfully put to bed by the resignation of the meddling media adviser. Questions still remain about who in Gillard’s office knew what, and when. At best it seems some of her most senior staff kept Gillard in the dark about Hodges’ confession to the fateful phone call overnight and well into the next day. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-comedy-of-errors-thats-not-very-funny/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-comedy-of-errors-thats-not-very-funny/#item7661 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:55:01 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sydney-people-are-such-sooks-about-the-weather/ You know you’ve officially become a Sydneysider when you become obsessed with “The Southerly”. When’s it due? Why hasn’t it got here yet? It’s reached the airport - bloody-well hurry up. In Sydney, having the Bureau of Meteorology as your homepage is not considered weird. We’ve been bitching and moaning for months about how wet it is, how cold it is, how we wanted to spend Christmas at the beach but it raaaaiiined. Then yesterday in Sydney we had our first day over 30 degrees for the summer, and last night it didn’t get down below 25.5 degrees at Observatory Hill. You’d think this event would be welcomed with wild celebrations yes? Not in Sydney. Today we’re all soooo tiiiirrred because none of us could sleep properly. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sydney-people-are-such-sooks-about-the-weather/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sydney-people-are-such-sooks-about-the-weather/#item7645 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:45:27 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/this-is-who-thursdays-event-was-supposed-to-be-about/ The Australia Day event at The Lobby in Canberra has become all about Tony Hodges, Kim Sattler, Barbara Shaw, Michael Anderson, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, the police and a bunch of idiots who saw fit to hijack the day. It wasn’t supposed to be about them. Our political leaders had gathered at the restaurant to bestow the new National Emergency Medal on 26 Australians who, paid or unpaid, did extraordinary work during the Victorian Bushfires and Queensland floods. In her speech before the event was hijacked by an appalling set of bad decisions the Prime Minister said: “Today we award these Medals to a group of Australians who inspired us with their courage and service during two of the most devastating summers of natural disaster Australia has ever witnessed: the Victorian bushfires of 2009 and the Queensland floods and cyclone of December 2010 and January 2011.” tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/this-is-who-thursdays-event-was-supposed-to-be-about/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/this-is-who-thursdays-event-was-supposed-to-be-about/#item7630 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:00:53 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/when-is-this-sorry-mess-going-to-end/ So we now know who is responsible for putting Julia Gillard into the most peril she’s been in since she became Prime Minister - her own office. A senior member of the Prime Minister’s team has tonight resigned after it emerged he was the one who tipped off an Aboriginal Tent Embassy contact that Tony Abbott was in the Lobby restaurant yesterday - information that led to the Prime Minister being dragged to her car in undignified scenes that are now world news. Tony Hodges, who was the one trawling the Press Gallery yesterday afternoon trying to sheet home blame for the ugly scenes to the Opposition Leader, is tonight no longer working for the PM. If it wasn’t so disgusting it would be funny. This came a day after a member of senior Cabinet Minister Anthony Albanese’s staff saw fit to send his boss off to the Press Club armed with a raft of fantastic quotes from a Hollywood movie. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/when-is-this-sorry-mess-going-to-end/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/when-is-this-sorry-mess-going-to-end/#item7629 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:25:02 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-was-yesterdays-drama-ever-allowed-to-happen/ Julia Gillard should be congratulated for maintaining even a shred of dignity after being dragged minus a shoe through a crowd at a speed she couldn’t keep up with. Most Australians were horrified by the images from the steps of the Lobby restaurant, and in turn would have been relieved when a composed PM, with two fresh shoes on, reassured everyone from outside The Lodge that she was fine. She should never have been placed in that terrible position in the first place, and there are many questions unanswered about how and why she was. 1. The location for yesterday’s inaugural emergency services medal presentation was poorly chosen. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-was-yesterdays-drama-ever-allowed-to-happen/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-was-yesterdays-drama-ever-allowed-to-happen/#item7620 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:00:19 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/maria-sharapova-would-you-just.-shut.-up/ The viewers are sick of it. The commentators are sick of it. The other players are sick of it - to the point where they’re asking the WTA to act, and even worse, taking the piss out of them behind their backs (see below video of Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clijsters). Whether it’s cheating or not is open to discussion, but there’s no denying Maria Sharapova and her fellow screaming grunters are driving everyone around the bend. This afternoon as Sharapova hits Rod Laver Arena for her Australian Open quarter finals match against fellow-Russian Ekaterina Makarova, Seven may as well give the commentators an hour and a half off work. No one will be watching with the sound on. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/maria-sharapova-would-you-just.-shut.-up/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/maria-sharapova-would-you-just.-shut.-up/#item7602 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:04:59 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/she-doesnt-know-whether-to-hit-red-or-black/ It takes a certain sort of rich self-regard to be in as deep a political hole as Labor MP Craig Thomson and yet still deliver your own leader a dud hand in a major newspaper. Perhaps the Member for Dobell has decided to go all-in as a final flutter (insert further tortured gambling metaphor here). His oped this morning in The Daily Telegraph essentially used praise of the Prime Minister’s dumping of the Wilkie deal on pokies to suggest her initial decision to commit to the plan had “flown in the face of proper policy making.” Never mind Thomson’s precarious hold on his career is one of the reasons Julia Gillard felt compelled to woo disgruntled Coalition MP Peter Slipper into the Speaker’s Chair. And now that Wilkie has declared the PM dead to him, she’s back in the position of relying on Thomson not to buckle under the pressure of a range of disastrous accusations, thereby forcing a by-election. The situation is more complicated than a game of Mahjong. tors@thepunch.com.au (Tory Maguire) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/she-doesnt-know-whether-to-hit-red-or-black/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/she-doesnt-know-whether-to-hit-red-or-black/#item7583 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:55:47 +0000 Tory Maguire | Author bios | The Punch