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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

Comedian Tom Ballard sits down with politicians, activists, thinkers and comedians to try to talk, laugh, cry and argue about politics. You will learn things and get fired up and hear some swearing. Enjoy.
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May 30, 2017

Jack Latimore is a Goori man of the Birpai nation. He's a journalist and researcher who covers indigenous affairs, media, culture and politics and his work has appeared in The Guardian, Indigenous X, Koori Mail, The Citizen, medium, SBS and Overland.

In the past week we've marked Sorry Day and the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and witnessed 300 Indigenous leaders gather in Uluru for a summit on what constitutional recognition for Australia's First Peoples might look like. Here I ask Jack what he made of the summit's Statement from the Heart, how recognition and/or treaty could work and media representations of Indigenous peoples, from First Contact to Stan Grant to Bill Leak's cartoons. 

Listen To Love is on Audible

Problematic is coming to Edinburgh Fringe 2017

SAVE THE DATE: June 22nd for a charity gig for Refugee Legal at Howler Bar in Melbourne 

@LatimoreJack

@IndigenousXLtd

jacklatimore.online

Jack's writing for The Guardian

Article: Noel Pearson's model for recognition wins support

Article: Five factors that will shape the outcome for Recognise at Uluru 

Article: Indigenous Leaders Call For A Treaty In The Landmark "Uluru Statement From The Heart"

Article: Uluru forum to pursue Makaratta instead of symbolic recognition  

Jack's piece on First Contact  

Jack's piece on the ABC's Recognition: Yes Or No

Jack's piece on Bill Leak's cartoon

Nyunggai Warren Mundine's piece on Bill Leak's cartoon

This week's Q&A: 1967 and Mabo - Moving Forward

John Newfong on wikipedia

Cause of the Week: Indigenous X (indigenousx.com.au), Seed Mob (seedmob.org.au) & Koorie Youth Council (yacvic.org.au)

 

May 23, 2017

John Safran is one of the most interesting writers/comedians/filmmakers/broadcasters/provocateurs/social commentators Australia has ever produced. He’s fascinated by issues surrounding religion and race and the Illuminati and he’s very funny when exploring them.

John’s latest book, Depends What You Mean By Extremist, sees him hanging out with far right extremists like the United Patriots Front and Reclaim Australia, Islamic fundamentalists and far left anarchists. It’s brilliant, challenging and very relevant to the INTENSE political moment we’re living through. Here John and I talk about patriotism, extremism, Australia’s reluctance to accept radicalism in any form and geese and ganders.

Please help out Refugee Legal because Peter Dutton is being awful again

Listen To Love is on Audible

Problematic is coming to Edinburgh Fringe 2017

@johnsafran

johnsafran.com

Depends What You Mean By Extremist is out now

Article: John Safran - 'In Australia we don't get religion' 

Cause of the Week: The Make A Wish Foundation (makeawish.org.au)

 

May 16, 2017

One of the biggest and best comedians in Australia, Wil Anderson is super funny, super smart and super nice. Wil is a world-renowned stand up, the host of the ABC hit Gruen, former host of weekly satire show The Glass House and serial podcaster. He's been thinking and telling jokes about the news for a long time and he's pretty bloody good at it.  

This chat covers a lot of ground, from Wil's thoughts on the size of government to the state of journalism and the ABC to his approach to political comedy. We also eat some cheese and laugh about Mark Latham.

Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia  

Gay and Bi men are being persecuted in Chechnya - you can help:

Sign this Amnesty petition

Sign this AllOut petition

Buy William Elm's song "One"; all proceeds going to the Russia LGBT Network

Find out more in this New York Times article

@wil_anderson

wilanderson.com.au

My episode with Chris Berg

Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent

My chat with Wil on his show Wilosophy 

You Can't Ask That

Article: Is The World A Laughing Matter? One Night Stan Comics on Why Comedy Has A Vital Role

 

Cause of the week: UNHCR (unrefugees.org.au), support independent media please

 

May 9, 2017

Sara Saleh is a self-identifying "radical" poet and human rights activist. She works in refugee resettlement, is a GetUp! board member, co-founded the Dubai Poetry Slam and has worked with organisations like Amnesty International and WestWORDS. 

At a time of heightened Islamophobic debate raging in the public sphere in Australia, Sara and I talk about what it's like to have your faith and community constantly being scrutinised and demonised by politicians and commentators. From the plight of Yassmin Abdel-Magied to Palestine to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the intersection of Islam and feminism, this is a really enlightening discussion about uncomfortable things. 

Problematic is coming to the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Pleasance Courtyard

@SaraSalehOz

Wasting The Milk In Summer on Facebook

Article: Australia's grand mufti wins defamation case over News Corp articles

Sara and Maajid Nawaz on ABC's The Drum 

Article: Why are fighting Islamophobia at the expense of Indigenous Australians? by Sara Saleh

Article: How did Maajid Nawaz end up on a list of 'Anti-Muslim Extremists'? 

Article: "You are not our ally" - Video campaigned launched as Ayaan Hirsi Ali cancels Australian tour

Article: Getup! Director backs Israeli boycott

Article: Fighting Hislam: Susan Carland on what it means to be a Muslim feminist 

Cause of the Week: GetUp! (getup.org.au)

 

May 2, 2017

Chris Berg is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs and a Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT. He's passionate about civil liberties, defending freedom, shrinking the size of government and general libertarian good times.

Here Chris and I cover a lot: "ideology" not being a dirty word, the pitfalls of politics, the role of the State, prosecuting radical ideas, human flourishing, adapting to (rather than taxing) climate change, the Nanny State, partying in Amsterdam, why the Commonwealth Games are a rort and what he admires in the Left.  

Problematic is on at the Sydney Comedy Festival this week for 4 shows only 

Problematic is coming to the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Pleasance Courtyard 

Listen to Alice Fraser and me on The Bugle live at the Melbourne Comedy Festival

Sam Wallman's piece on the minimum wage

@chrisberg

Chris' writing on ABC's The Drum

Chris' writing on The IPA

Be Like Gough: 75 Radical Ideas To Transform Australia

25 More Ideas For Tony Abbott

Chris' speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on the "Nanny State"

The Libertarian Alternative published by MUP

Cause of the Week: The Human Capital Project (humancapitalproject.com.au)

 

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