http://www.thepunch.com.au/tags/assault/ Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. 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/benji-marshall.-hero.-gentleman.-good-guy/ On school visits, Benji Marshall has a fun and disarming way of introducing himself. He says “my name is Benjamin Quentin Marshall” as the kids look on with bemusement. Marshall will no doubt introduce himself with similar formality, minus the cheeky grin, when he fronts court on assault charges on April 20. But regardless of what happens that day, I’d still invite him to my kids’ school. Marshall, who launched the 2011 NRL season last week, was allegedly racially taunted in the most vulgar possible way on Saturday night. This, after he’d MC’d a charity function for the Children’s Cancer Institute which raised $244,000, then stayed out in town for a few drinks, and a fateful 3am burger, which all made sense as he had a room booked in town. Obviously, The Punch wasn’t there. But let me say this: in five years at Australia’s biggest sporting magazine Alpha, I met numerous topline footballers in all codes. And Benji Marshall was right at the top of the list of the players who struck me as intelligent, wholesome, and thoroughly unlikely to turn feral without the severest provocation. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/benji-marshall.-hero.-gentleman.-good-guy/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/benji-marshall.-hero.-gentleman.-good-guy/#item5314 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 It’s not hard to become a serial offender. It’s much harder to avoid becoming one. It’s hardest of all when your offence – serial, nearly serial, or otherwise – is Movie Rage. This is a seriously under-studied syndrome suffered by usually polite and self-effacing people who go to the movies to see a film. Not to have lunch, morning or afternoon tea. To see a film. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confession-movie-rage-made-me-assault-a-stranger/ It’s not hard to become a serial offender. It’s much harder to avoid becoming one. It’s hardest of all when your offence – serial, nearly serial, or otherwise – is Movie Rage. This is a seriously under-studied syndrome suffered by usually polite and self-effacing people who go to the movies to see a film. Not to have lunch, morning or afternoon tea. To see a film. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confession-movie-rage-made-me-assault-a-stranger/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confession-movie-rage-made-me-assault-a-stranger/#item4842 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 It’s not hard to become a serial offender. It’s much harder to avoid becoming one. It’s hardest of all when your offence – serial, nearly serial, or otherwise – is Movie Rage. This is a seriously under-studied syndrome suffered by usually polite and self-effacing people who go to the movies to see a film. Not to have lunch, morning or afternoon tea. To see a film. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wooden-spooning-is-assualt-no-back-chat/ You aren’t allowed to smack your partner, so why should you be allowed to smack your child? It also makes no sense to me to declare war on thugs in the street and yet still allow parents to hit their kids. This is particularly the case when it’s done with a blunt wooden object rather than just a hand. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wooden-spooning-is-assualt-no-back-chat/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wooden-spooning-is-assualt-no-back-chat/#item1486 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 It’s not hard to become a serial offender. It’s much harder to avoid becoming one. It’s hardest of all when your offence – serial, nearly serial, or otherwise – is Movie Rage. This is a seriously under-studied syndrome suffered by usually polite and self-effacing people who go to the movies to see a film. Not to have lunch, morning or afternoon tea. To see a film. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/close-encounters-with-the-wooden-spoon/ With the controversy in Melbourne of a mother who was brought before police and still could be charged with assualt for using wooden spoon on her daughter, we at the Punch thought we’d share with you wooden spooning techniques used in our families. Were you subjected to the wooden spoon? Is it acceptable or based on an outdated notion or corporal punishment? Growing up in family of nine children discipline was not merely an issue for parents at one point in my family we had our own militia and counter-intelligence organisation.  I’m actually surprised that we all survived some of those punch ups that would quickly escalate into riots putting those Nigerian crime gangs to shame.  penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/close-encounters-with-the-wooden-spoon/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/close-encounters-with-the-wooden-spoon/#item1485 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 It’s not hard to become a serial offender. It’s much harder to avoid becoming one. It’s hardest of all when your offence – serial, nearly serial, or otherwise – is Movie Rage. This is a seriously under-studied syndrome suffered by usually polite and self-effacing people who go to the movies to see a film. Not to have lunch, morning or afternoon tea. To see a film.