http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/wendy-squires/ Wendy Squires has been a journalist for more than 20 years, starting work at News Ltd as a cadet journalist before moving to New York to work as a freelance writer. She has edited Cleo and Australian Style magazines as well as holding senior positions on Elle, Mode, Who Weekly, Madison and the Australian Women’s Weekly, where is currently associate editor. 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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sydney-awash-with-coke/ The Daily Telegraph ran the story today as its Monday lead, “Drug lords hit town – cartels get rich on Aussie hunger for cocaine”. A “generational shift” the paper explained, has pushed the demand for the drug making Australia the world’s most lucrative coke market.  While this was surely a shock for the few Sydneysiders who haven’t stepped out to a bar, club, trendy restaurant or party in the past few years, for the rest of us, the story was more a case of no shit Sherlock than shock. Because, if you live in Sydney and are under the age of 55, chances are you will run into the drug every day if you knew what you were looking for. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Wendy Squires) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sydney-awash-with-coke/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sydney-awash-with-coke/#item1990 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:38:52 +0000 Wendy Squires | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/more-money-than-sense-go-broke-on-fashion-in-the-gfc/ Oh the horror. If I could have slapped myself across the chops without it hurting, I would. Lord knows I deserved to. Instead, I slammed the wardrobe doors in disgust, sat down on the bed littered with shoes, dresses, bags, belts and other crap I don’t need, and had a long, hard think about where it all went wrong – how I had found myself in a global economic crisis with what could have been a year off my mortgage in bits of fabric and leather tat. I had not always been a label queen, nor had I ever aspired to be. As a young cadet journalist on newspapers, designer clothes were never a consideration or a possibility – not if I wanted to actually eat regularly. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Wendy Squires) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/more-money-than-sense-go-broke-on-fashion-in-the-gfc/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/more-money-than-sense-go-broke-on-fashion-in-the-gfc/#item961 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:45:18 +0000 Wendy Squires | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/millions-of-happy-single-people-cant-be-wrong/ Last week at a lunch to console a newly-divorced friend, I decided to lighten her terror at being “the only single woman left on the planet” and relate an interesting new statistic. “A recent study in the UK found that in 20 years, one in five women currently in their twenties will never have married and will live alone. See, there’ll be millions like us!” I said cheerily. Looking at my girlfriend’s face, it became apparent she was not quite as enthralled by this statistical tidbit as me. In fact, judging by her open-mouth stare, anyone would think I had just disembowelled a baby panda and was about to start on a litter of puppies. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Wendy Squires) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/millions-of-happy-single-people-cant-be-wrong/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/millions-of-happy-single-people-cant-be-wrong/#item910 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:40:40 +0000 Wendy Squires | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-girls-are-always-sucked-in-by-a-blood-sucking-bastard/ I finally got around to watching Twilight recently and, as a result, fear for a generation of impressionable, young and deluded women. Wherever Robert Pattinson, who plays the enigmatic teen vampire Edward in the blockbuster book and movie franchise, goes these days he is swamped by hysterical young girls who appear headed down a rough old romantic road. And now I know why. You see, Edward is the template of everything I, and so many women like me, tend to go for in a man which, despite the wisdom of age, several broken relationships and all good intentions, remains best described in one word: unattainable. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Wendy Squires) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-girls-are-always-sucked-in-by-a-blood-sucking-bastard/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-girls-are-always-sucked-in-by-a-blood-sucking-bastard/#item827 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:00:18 +0000 Wendy Squires | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-modest-proposal-for/ At last, the emaciated pink elephant in fashion’s corner has been acknowledged. UK Vogue editor Alexandra Schulman recently sent a letter to the top designers in the business imploring them to make their sample sizes larger so she doesn’t have to hire models who are dangerously thin to just fit their garments. It was a brave move at a time where advertisers are not only king in the magazine industry but omnipresent dictators, which took me back to my own fashion moment where I decided enough was enough. I was working on an up-market glossy at the time and somehow managed to wrangle myself a seat beside a colleague at parade in Paris. Watching the models strut their spindly stuff on the catwalk, I was appalled to see their legs were only slightly thicker than the torturous spikes they teetered on. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Wendy Squires) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-modest-proposal-for/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-modest-proposal-for/#item357 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:50:29 +0000 Wendy Squires | Author bios | The Punch