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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/in-defence-of-craig-thomson/ Like all moral upstanding citizens of Australia, I have been shocked by the revelations about Craig Thomson. This is a man who, if the allegations are to be believed, ripped thousands of dollars off his employer so he could blow it all on hookers, booze and good times. But despite all of this he is still being criticised. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/in-defence-of-craig-thomson/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/in-defence-of-craig-thomson/#item6594 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-bill/ In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-bill/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-bill/#item6574 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Scent-of-an-election-fuels-Tonys-faux-outrage/ There are few spectacles more engrossing in politics than watching Craig Thomson squirm painfully amid insistences he has been falsely accused of particularly grubby conduct. One of those few things is the sudden and carefully crafted indignation of the Opposition, complete with furrowed brows and head-shakes of disbelief at the enormity of the Thomson accusations. It’s an interesting contest - allegations which could, if true, remove Mr Thomson from any role in public life; an Opposition which wasn’t interested in these claims of serious misconduct until it saw the opportunity for political gain. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Scent-of-an-election-fuels-Tonys-faux-outrage/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Scent-of-an-election-fuels-Tonys-faux-outrage/#item6565 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/roosters-lash-their-star-idiot-with-a-feather-again/ So Todd Carney will still be a Sydney Rooster, despite about 183 indiscretions this year. In other unsurprising news, Bondi Beach has waves and airheads. Carney is the troubled playmaker who last year won the NRL’s highest honour, the Dally M Medal. He won that award, and steered the Roosters from the wooden spoon to the grand final in his first year at the club, after a year out of the NRL due to numerous alcohol-related indiscretions. Carney spent 2009 playing park footy at the Atherton Roosters in north Queensland. He lived and worked in a pub, which might sound crazy, but in truth it had the effect of rubbing a puppy’s nose in its own poo. For the first time, he saw drunks through sober eyes, and he said it was a genuine shock. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/roosters-lash-their-star-idiot-with-a-feather-again/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/roosters-lash-their-star-idiot-with-a-feather-again/#item6468 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-kyle-sandilands-australias-smartest-man/ Kyle Sandilands is a genius. An absolute, out and out Einstein. The 40 year old broadcaster has no talent, no decorum, no personality, no looks, no style, no charm and no knowledge of anything outside the vast universe that is his ego. Yet the guy is hugely successful. I have rarely listened to Kyle Sandilands on the radio, nor indeed watched the talent shows on which he is a judge. That’s not snobbery. It’s just how it is. But just as you didn’t need to read Eat Pray Love to know it was bag of fertiliser-grade horse manure, you don’t need to listen to Kyle to know his shows are rubbish. And that, right there, is the proof that he’s so damn clever. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-kyle-sandilands-australias-smartest-man/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-kyle-sandilands-australias-smartest-man/#item6429 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Po-faced-and-pie-faced-what-next-for-Murdoch/ So much for the schadenfreudegasm. Last night’s grilling of Rupert and James Murdoch by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee was rather more like a ‘rose ceremony’ in an episode of The Bachelor: slow and excruciating, but compulsive viewing nonetheless. The entire event was full of tension and politeness in equal measure, and James Murdoch’s long-winded non-response to the first question was more heavily scripted than the episode of Winners and Losers which aired earlier in the evening. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Po-faced-and-pie-faced-what-next-for-Murdoch/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Po-faced-and-pie-faced-what-next-for-Murdoch/#item6329 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/all-this-hacking-raises-this-hapless-hacks-hackles/ It is one of the great dangers of this new technological age that we are all potential victims of “computer hacking”. Computer hacking is an insidious and underhanded practice that infliltrates “computers”, which are like typewriters that you can play solitaire on. The risks of hacking were brutally demonstrated in the 2007 documentary Die Hard 4.0, in which Bruce Willis spends two hours and eight minutes trying to send an email, only to give up and get someone from Generation Y to do it. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/all-this-hacking-raises-this-hapless-hacks-hackles/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/all-this-hacking-raises-this-hapless-hacks-hackles/#item6324 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/In-our-own-way-we-all-love-a-little-News-of-The-World/ The end of the News of the World as we know it. I can’t help but feel partly responsible. It’s not because I ever worked for the paper masquerading as a fake sheik exposing celebrity transsexuals, randy bishops and corrupt snooker stars. It’s not because – as a writer for a News Ltd publication – I feel infected by some sort of communicable corporate unscrupulousness. It’s not even because I belong to the broad – and now broadly disgraced – field of journalism. Nope. The real reason I feel partly culpable for the foul play of this nasty little tabloid is because I like reading about grubby celebrity scandals. And grubby celebrity scandals often require grubby journalistic tactics. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/In-our-own-way-we-all-love-a-little-News-of-The-World/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/In-our-own-way-we-all-love-a-little-News-of-The-World/#item6288 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Gillard-and-Brown-are-shootin-the-messenger/ The push by Bob Brown and Julia Gillard for a parliamentary inquiry into the media is so cynical, manipulative and transparently biased that if we really were as evil as they believe we’d congratulate them both for joining the dark side. Both leaders are seeking to establish a connection in the public’s mind between the obscene and illegal practices exposed in the UK and perfectly conventional and legitimate journalism and commentary in Australia with which they just happen to disagree. It is extraordinary both how blatantly they have hijacked the issue and how seamlessly the more naïve and ideological sections of the community have followed them to this at best offensive and at worst dangerous illogicality. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Gillard-and-Brown-are-shootin-the-messenger/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Gillard-and-Brown-are-shootin-the-messenger/#item6302 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document… http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/one-rule-for-sports-stars-another-for-us-mere-mortals/ Wouldn’t it be a wondrous thing if we were all treated like sports stars? Adored, spoiled and treated like gods with a sense of entitlement that knows no bounds. Never having to pay for a drink or stand in a queue, paid squillions to do what we love, nubile young things throwing themselves at us, wives willing to turn a blind eye and fans eager to defend us to the death no matter how impertinent or obnoxious we behave. Indeed any act of arseclownery is tolerated as long as we perform on the field. Even if we descend into criminal behaviour, our extensive support network is there to catch us and the ever indulgent public is always eager to give us yet another chance. No behavior, no matter how abhorrent and criminal is going to see us robbed of the opportunity to redeem ourselves. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/one-rule-for-sports-stars-another-for-us-mere-mortals/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/one-rule-for-sports-stars-another-for-us-mere-mortals/#item6106 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In perhaps his most extraordinary exclusive to date, Joe has obtained the credit card statement that could bring down Labor MP Craig Thomson and with him the whole Gillard Government. See below for this truly explosive document…