Scot Palmer

Scot Palmer is an Australian sports journalist.

A long-time writer for the [The Sun, the Sunday Press, Sunday Sun and Sunday Herald Sun) he is best known as a columnist for the "Punchlines" segment pn Sundays. He has also appeared on the Seven Network as a regular during half-time breaks of AFL matches and on HSV7's Sunday football panel over two decades He catchcry "Keep on punchin', and relays back to commentators Peter Landy and Sandy Roberts made him even more well known.

Scot is the only son of legendary sports and crime reporter, the late Clyde Palmer, who worked on the Morning Post, The Sun News Pictorial and Truth. His character was portrayed by the late Graham Kennedy in the well read 'Power Without Glory'. Scot started as a copy boy on The Sun, covering a wide variety of general work before winning the Herald @ Weekly Times overseas scholarship and moving on to sport. Best known for his work on AFL football, Scot was one of the founders and a former president of the of the Football Writers Association, now the AFL Media Association. He also covered nine Olympic Games, Wimbledon tennis and did appear with Jack Thompson in the famous football movie 'The Club' playing the role as a reporter. He retired from the Sunay Herald Sun as Associate Editor in 2008 but was retained by the Herald and Weekly Times to continue writing his Punchlines.