CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of sexual assault
Daniel Sloss is a Scottish comedian who has sold out shows around the world, appeared on Conan shitloads of times and has two specials on Netflix. I'm also lucky enough to consider him a friend.
Daniel's latest show X deals with toxic masculinity and his personal response to an incident involving the sexual assault of a friend. It's a funny and thoughtful response to gender politics, call-out culture, sexual violence and #MeToo. In this conversation (recorded back in March), Daniel and I have a frank and at times tricky conversation about how to navigate this kind of terrain, the ethics of writing offensive and dark comedy and how we can all try to make the most of this cultural reckoning with the widespread scourge of sexual misconduct.
We also have a few laughs.
I'm keen to hear any and all feedback on this episode: my email is tom@tomballard.com.au
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Daniel's show X is at the Fringe for three nights only
Cause of the Week: Rape & Domestic Violence Australia (rape-dvservices.org.au), Rape Crisis Scotland (rapecrisisscotland.org.uk)
James Ball is a journalist and the current Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He worked with WikiLeaks on the Iraq War documents leak in 2010 and was part of The Guardian team that helped published the Edward Snowden sneaks about the NSA.
Last week I sat down with James in a London heatwave to reflect on Boris Johnson becoming PM, stockpiling for a no-deal Brexit, the way bullshit works in today's politics, the anti-Semitism scandal in the British Labour Party and the plight of Julian Assange.
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Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd
I'm on the latest episode of The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman & Nato Green
James' writing at The New Statesman
James' writing at The Guardian
James' speech Bathing in Bullshit, 2017
ARTICLE: Inside the Strange, Paranoid World of Julian Assange by James Ball
ARTICLE: Chelsea Manning is in jail. Our silence is shameful by James Ball
ARTICLE: Labour says it will would end the welfare freeze (BBC NEWS)
ARTICLE: The Strange Case of Julian Assange by Bernard Keane
Cause of the Week: Overgate Hospice (overgatehospice.co.uk)
Corey White is a comedian and writer with a pretty remarkable personal story. His memoir The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a funny, dark and brutally honest account of being raised in a violent working class home, being put through the harsh foster care system, struggling with issues of sexual identity and drug addiction and eventually becoming the comedian and man he is today.
Here, Corey and I compare notes on our very different childhoods and discuss issues of class, being a member of the lumpenproletariat, the welfare state, outrage, the case for a UBI and "fusionism". We laugh a lot throughout.
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The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory through Penguin
Corey's event at the Moonee Ponds Library on Monday July 29th
ARTICLE: Corey White on childhood trauma, foster care and comedy: 'It's a factory for the insane'
Corey on Q&A discussing incentivised contraception
Cause of the Week: The Pyjama Foundation (thepyjamafoundation.com)
Former Greens senator and lifelong campaigner Lee Rhiannon has been fighting on the Left since she was fifteen years old.
Almost a year on from stepping down as a Senator for NSW after losing preselection to Mehreen Faruqi, Lee talks to me about being spied on by ASIO from the age of seven, being raised by socialist parents, the state of the union movement, just how badly neoliberalism has knocked around the Left, the tensions that continue to frustrate the Australian Greens and how the party can find a better way to reach out to working people.
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I’m doing a preview of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on Tuesday July 23rd
Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
ARTICLE: Outgoing Lee Rhiannon urges Greens to resist 'careerism and bullying'
ARTICLE: Enemies within as Greens are caught in civil war
Cause of the Week: Frontline Action on Coal (frontlineaction.org)
Playwright, commentator and activist Van Badham is back on the podcast after she joined me in July of 2015.
Since then Van has been a passionate advocate for the re-election of a Labor government and a scathing critic of The Australian Greens. I was keen to dig further into her thinking on that and ask her what she thought went wrong in the 2019 federal election (the answer might surprise you). Van mounts a vigorous defence of Labor's policies here and explains why she sees it as the major hope for the socialist Left in Australia.
Plus also you will hear her dog barking in the background.
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I'm doing two previews of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on July 16th & 23rd
Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
Van's play Banging Denmark at the Sydney Opera House
Van's opinion pieces:
Labor's support for tax cuts is an unfathomable betrayal of principle
Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism. Can they lead it out?
Labour has a chance if it replaces Corbyn. Look at Australia in 1983
Time to hail Hilary Clinton - and face down the testosterone left
How I fell out of love with the Greens: a personal story about the Labor Party
The ALP National Platform 2018
ARTICLE: Van Badham's defence of Hillary Clinton is insufferable right wing crap by Sarah Garnham
ARTICLE: Van Badham's defence of Clinton is preposterous by Michael Brull
ARTICLE: It wasn't Bob Brown who lost the election, it was the Labor Party by James Norman
ARTICLE: How Australia's Labor Party Lost an Un-Loseable Election by Daniel Lopez
Cause of the Week: The Australian Labor Party (alp.org.au)
Josh Bornstein is an employment and IR lawyer at Maurice & Blackburn and the director at the Australia Institute.
He's been increasingly concerned about the level of control that Australian employers have gained over their employees' freedom of speech and expression. So when it comes to the case of Israel Falou, he's been (controversially) outspoken about the legal ramifications for workers if we accept that your boss can fire you for saying the wrong thing.
Here Josh and I take the time to flesh out his argument on this, how one can unequivocally condemn what Falou said but still object to him losing his job and what the implications for this saga might be for anti-discrimination protections moving forward.
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ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
ARTICLE: Sacked for speaking your mind? Don't expect the free speech brigade to help by Jason Wilson
ARTICLE: Integrity - it's all Greek to the hypocrites of the Right by Josh Bornstein
ARTICLE: Everyone Is Wrong About Israel Falou by Lane Sainty
Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
Cause of the Week: The Centre for Future Work (futurework.org.au)
Jeremy Poxon is a social security activist and the media officer for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. His spicy twitter account regularly draws attention to the plight of unemployed and underemployed people in Australia, from those living on Newstart to people on Work for the Dole to folks just trying to survive in the gig economy.
Here Jeremy explains exactly how organising unemployed workers in a union works, why capitalism is antithetical to the idea of (actual) full employment, why Labor's centrism SUCKS BUTT, what's involved in a jobs guarantee and what an Australian Green New Deal might look like.
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ENOUGH is on in Collingwood in Melbourne this Friday & Saturday night
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
ARTICLE: What Good Are Billions of Surplus Dollars When People Are Starving? by Jeremy Poxon
ARTICLE: Living on Newstart: 'I don't eat every day. That saves some money I guess' by Gay Alcorn
Cause of the Week: The Unemployed Workers Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
Something a little bit different for you this week: highlights from a live performance of A Rational Fear at Queensland's inaugural Climate Week.
There were jokes and songs and facts about the impending climate crisis, featuring myself, Dan Ilic, Melinda Buttle, Steph Tisdell, Lewis Hobba, Prof. Hilary Bambrick and Bridie Connell & Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd. Enjoy.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle this Friday night
Then Geelong and Melbourne later in the month
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
Jonathan Green is a veteran journalist and broadcaster who presents at the ABC and edits the literary magazine Meanjin.
He's been working as a journo since the late 70s so I thought he'd be a good person to reflect on how the political media is serving us in 2019 (hint: it's not). We talk about exactly why Jonathan thinks politics is "bollocks", the corrosive influence of the Murdoch media empire and whether there's anything to do about it, the smallness of the "Lucky Country" and the challenges ahead for progressive politics.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle, Geelong, Sydney & Melbourne
A Rational Fear is coming to Brisbane for Climate Week this Thursday June 6th
I’ll be back in Brisbane on Sunday June 30th for the MELT Gala
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
ARTICLE: 'Prefer to battle News Corp than Scott Morrison': Michael Miller slams Labor by Jennifer Duke
ARTICLE: What counts as rich now? by Mike Seccombe
Cause of the Week: The Smith Family's Sponsor-A-Child Program (thesmithfamily.com.au)
He's back! The socialist journalist, author, broadcaster and activist Jeff Sparrow is back to help make sense of the election result.
Hear what Jeff makes of the idea that the ALP should return to the "sensible centre", how unconvincing Bill Shorten was as a progressive leader, the radical response that the climate crisis requires, where to next for the #StopAdani campaign, the fate of The Greens and whether class warfare is really over (hint: it's not).
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle, Geelong, Sydney & Melbourne
A Rational Fear is coming to Brisbane for Climate Week on Thursday June 6th
I'll be back in Brisbane on Sunday June 30th for the MELT Gala
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
Jeff's articles: Where to now for the Left?
What went wrong for Labor on climate
The environment vs jobs? We have been in this fight before
Jeff's book Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness & The Rise of the Right
ARTICLE: Unions' pro-Labor electoral strategy a failure by Tom Bramble
ARTICLE: Tony Burke floats Green New Deal-style approach to Labor's climate policy
ARTICLE: Anthony Albanese to travel to Queensland on first day as Labor leader
ARTICLE: Trumpism is taking over the world and the Left is to blame by Bret Stephens
Cause of the Week: BDS Australia (bdsaustralia.net.au)
Gideon Rozner is a Liberal Party member and the director of policy at free market think tank The Institute of Public Affairs. He loves markets and freedom and shit like that.
I'd booked this discussion in prior to the weekend's election results which for SOME FUCKING BONKERS reason s3aw the Morrison government re-elected. Gideon was very pleased with the result and in this conversation we discuss what he think happened, what Morrison will actually do, his climate scepticism, "class warfare", abolishing the Fair Work Act and how much money he won by betting on the election.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle, Geelong, Sydney & Melbourne
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Gideon's profile on The IPA website
20 Policies to Fix Australia by The IPA
Gideon talks Peter Ridd on Sky News Outsiders
ARTICLE: Climate sceptics see a conspiracy in Australia's record-breaking heat by Graham Readfearn
ARTICLE: Australian Labor's Miliband Moment by Osmond Chiu
ARTICLE: We live in anti-political times by Elizabeth Humphrys
Cause of the Week: Give Money To Homeless People (or alternatively support Justice Connect's Homeless Law justiceconnect.org.au)
Singapore-based fund manager Alex Turnbull is the son of the ousted PM Malcolm and self-described "activist in most senses of the word".
Since the leadership coup in August of last year, Alex has been publicly scathing of the state of the Liberal Party and has actively campaigned to get centrist independents elected in traditionally safe Liberal seats. Alex joined me via Skype to talk with me about about his new approach to politics and public debate, what the heck the "sensible centre" really means and whether or not his dad ever watched my TV show.
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ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
I'm hosting the Smokestack Comedy Gala is on at Monash University this Friday night
Please support the Refugee Council's Choose Humane campaign
ARTICLE: Alex Turnbull, former PM's son, names 'top 5 craziest Liberals'
ARTICLE: Alex Turnbull takes aim at News Corp
ARTICLE: Alex Turnbull puts his money where his non-Liberal mouth is
Dirty Power: Big Coal's network of influence over the Coalition government by Greenpeace
Cause of the Week: Carbon Tracker (carbontracker.org)
Richard Di Natale is a Senator for Victoria and the leader of the Australian Greens. His seat isn't up this election but he is out there campaigning hard for the Greens to retain their positions in the Senate and potentially pick up some lower house seats too.
In this conversation we covered a lot, from Richard's thoughts on the egging of the PM to the ghosts of social media past sinking young people's political careers to his party's political fortunes to capitalism to MDMA. But it's clear that the Greens' and Richard's passion is focussed on the existential threat of climate change (as you'd expect). Here Richard outlines the importance of the battle against Adani, the bizarre coal culture war and what a just transition for coal miners might actually look like.
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richard-di-natale.greensmps.org.au
Richard's speech at the National Press Club
The Greens' election platform (read it please)
350.org's documentary Accelerate Climate Action
ARTICLE: Whither the Greens? How a reckoning looms for a party fighting to hang on by Paddy Manning
ARTICLE: What is next for the Australian Greens? by Martin McKenzie-Murray
Cause of the Week: The Australian Greens (greens.org.au)
My childhood friend Alex Dyson is a very nice and very funny man who I got to host the triple j breakfast show with for four years.
Now, somewhat insanely, he is running as an independent candidate in our home seat of Wannon in south-west Victoria. It's a seat that's been held by the Liberals for 64 years and is currently held by Minister for Education Dan Tehan by a margin of 10%.
We drank a lot of wine, watched the godawful Leaders' Debate and had a long and fun and slightly-tipsy chat about his politics, why he thinks it's worth running in a safe seat, political ideology and Lupe Fiasco. We laughed, we reminisced, we respectfully disagreed, we danced. Enjoy!
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ENOUGH is coming to Sydney Comedy Festival for 4 shows only next week
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
ARTICLE: Legit Political Candidate Alex "Sesh Gremlin" Dyson Revealed Why He's Running
PM Julia Gillard Addresses the End of the World
Cause of the Week: Dangerous Females (dangerousfemales.com.au)
Kath Larkin is a unionist and socialist activist. She’s the Victorian Socialists candidate for the seat of Cooper (formerly Batman) in the 2019 federal election, running against Labor’s Ged Kearney.
In this conversation Kath told me about asking Jordan Peterson a question on Q&A (that he didn’t like), her history of union organising, why she’s running in Cooper (and whether she’s going to win), her vision of a socialist future in Australia and she maintains hope in the idea of achieving radical change.
ENOUGH is coming to Sydney Comedy Festival for 4 shows only
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
Kath Larkin's Victorian Socialists candidate page
Kath Larkin's campaign on Facebook
Cause of the Week: Victorian Socialists (victoriansocialists.org.au)
Simon Holmes à Court is an energy transition expert. He's a Senior Advisor to at the Climate Energy College at Melbourne University, sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council and spends a lot of his time on twitter correcting the likes of Josh Frydenberg and Chris Uhlmann when they say silly wrong things about climate and energy issues issues.
In this conversation (recorded on an unseasonably warm April day), Simon talks me through the influence of fossil fuel money, the dumb culture war between coal and renewables, why he's a climate optimist and what the parties are offering in this climate election.
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My show ENOUGH has just four shows left at the Melbourne Comedy Festival
Plus I’m doing my play #KWANDA which is also good and funny! Just 2 shows left
ENOUGH is coming to Sydney Comedy Festival for 4 shows only
Simon's writing at The Guardian
Article: No, Minister Canavan, coal will not be king for 20 more years
Article: Australia's energy policy is a tangled mess built on a foundation of lies
Cause of the Week: Margo Kingston's #IndependentsDay for Climate Change Action on chuffed.org
Greg Larsen is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my whole bloody life. He and I worked together on Tonightly where we made some very silly and naughty comedy together before we were cruelly cancelled by the FASCIST LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.
In this chat I ask Greg to reflect on the Tonightly months, his political punk band The Feminazis, wokeness, debate and the pointlessness of protests.
My show ENOUGH is on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival right now! Hot dang!
Plus I’m doing my play #KWANDA which is also good and funny! Just 4 shows left
ENOUGH is coming to Sydney Comedy Festival for 4 shows only
My spot at the 2019 Comedy Festival Opening Night Gala
Greg's show Useful Idiot is at Melbourne Comedy Festival NOW
The infamous Tonightly sketch that sparked "Cuntgate"
And this sketch about Germans wanking is one of the funniest things I've ever been involved in
Cause of the Week: Donate to The Australian Greens (greens.org.au/donate)
Sorry about the delayed episode, all! My bad. Comedy Festival is on and all that. Anyway.
Sally McManus has been the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions since 2017. She's the public face of the trade union movement in Australia and she takes little to no shit whatsoever.
We recorded this chat on the day the ACTU launched their call for the minimum wage to be raised to a living wage. I asked Sally to explain what that means, as well as her stances on democratic socialism, neoliberalism, privatisation, insecure work, just how hard it is to go on strike in Australia and how the ALP could become a helluva lot better.
My show ENOUGH is on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival right now! Hot dang!
Plus I'm doing my play #KWANDA which is also good and funny! Just 6 shows left
ENOUGH is coming to Sydney Comedy Festival for 4 shows only
On Fairness by Sally McManus, Melbourne University Publishing
ARTICLE: Is Sally McManus the woman the Coalition fears most?
RALLY TO CHANGE THE RULES happening around the country on Wednesday April 10th
Cause of the Week: JOIN YOUR FUCKING UNION PLEASE (australianunions.org.au)
Samah Sabawi is a playwright, poet and activist who is passionate about fighting for the rights of the Palestinian people. Just days after the horrific massacre in Christchurch, Samah explains to me why she was "disappointed but not shocked" by the horrific attack and how nearly two decades of poisonous Islamophobia has led us to this point.
Samah also lays out what life is like for Palestinians in their own land, what the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement is calling for and why it's important you #BoycottEurovision2019.
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My stand-show ENOUGH is on at the Brisbane Comedy Festival this week
Then ENOUGH heads to the Melbourne & Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s funny! Please come!
My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
Donate to the families of the Christchurch victims
See Samah's play Them at La Mama Courthouse
ARTICLE: We told you the threat is white supremacy by Randa Abdel-Fattah
ARTICLE: 2,891 Murdoch Media Stories Trashing Islam In A Single Year, Study Reveals by Michael Brull
Cause of the Week: The BDS petition to #BoycottEurovision2019
Melissa Davey is the Melbourne Bureau Chief for Guardian Australia. She’s done brilliant reporting about lots of different things over her career, but over the past few weeks has been diligently covering on the trial and conviction of George Pell.
As Pell receives his sentencing today and as we learn more about his case for appeal, Melissa explains what it’s been like following this massive story, the journalistic ethics at play, the judicial process and the reactions from the media and the Church to the guilty verdict.
WARNING: This conversation contains discussion of sexual assault and abuse
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My stand-show ENOUGH is on at the Brisbane Comedy Festival next week
Then ENOUGH heads to the Melbourne & Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s funny! Please come!
My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
The School Strike 4 Climate is on this Friday!
Melissa's writing at Guardian Australia
ARTICLE: Cardinal Pell's Conviction: The Questions That Remain
ARTICLE: Five Times Guilty: How George Pell's Child-Abusing Past Caught Up With Him in Courtroom
ARTICLE: The inconsistencies of George Pell's defenders just displays their power by Richard Cooke
Cause of the Week: Dementia Australia (dementia-australia.org)
Emma is in Year 11, Anthony has just started uni and together they're involved in organising the second School Strike 4 Climate on Friday March 15th. It's a nation-wide, non-partisan, student-led protest demanding our political leaders take some GODDAMN REAL ACTION on climate change for once please.
It was an honour to sit down with these two passionate, funny, committed young people to discuss their motivations for organising the march, their hopes for what it might achieve and their thoughts on the very dumb criticism it's received from right-wing dumbos.
Trust me: listening to this will fill your heart with hope.
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My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
Unite For The Night @ The Metro, Thursday March 7th
Luke McGregor and I are coming to Nelson Bay and Belmont in March
The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis
Cause of the Week: SUPPORT THE STRIKE ON FRIDAY MARCH 15TH! SEE YOU THERE! THANKS!
Giordano Nanni is a historian and satirist and the driving force behind The Juice Media.
He was the co-creator of the hugely successful Rap News series which has tallied millions of views and featured cameos from the likes of Noam Chomsky and Julian Assange and since 2016 he's been collaborating in his lounge room with his partner Lucy and actors Ellen and Zoe to make the very-funny-and-extremely-on-point Honest Government Ads series. The series has tackled everything from net neutrality to East Timor to the arms trade to Australia Day and they make me laugh and they make me angry.
Here Giordano and I have a bloody lovely chat about the story of The Juice, how history forms his politics, working with Assange and Chomsky and how doing satire could potentially see him sent to prison for five years. Funny stuff!
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My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
Unite For The Night @ The Metro, Thursday March 7th
Luke McGregor and I are coming to Nelson Bay and Belmont in March
BDS Australia's petition calling on SBS to boycott Eurovision 2019
"2012 with Noam Chomsky & Anonymous [RAP NEWS X]"
"Aussie Election: A Game of Polls - feat. Julian Assange [RAP NEWS 20]"
Honest Government Ad | Visit Timor-Leste!
Honest Government Ad | The ABC
Honest Government Ad | Australia Day
Honest Government Ad | A Message For People Smugglers
Cause of the Week: East Timor Women Australia (etwa.org.au)
Aimee Terese is a law student, podcaster and socialist.
Until this week she was the co-host of the Dead Pundits Society podcast in which she picked apart US politics from a Leftist perspective, filling my brain with a bunch of smart insights and funny jokes. She doesn't suffer contradictions or bullshit and I loved getting to pick her brain during this conversation about the origins of her politics, electoralism, "lesser evil voting", Jordan B. Peterson and Bernie Sanders.
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My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
This Sunday I’m performing in Trevor Ashley’s MARDI GALA at the Sydney Opera House
Luke McGregor and I are coming to Nelson Bay and Belmont in March
The Dead Pundits Society podcast (@DeadPundits, on soundcloud)
Cause of the Week: The NSW/ACT Aboriginal Legal Service (alsnswact.org.au)
I'M BACK, BABY.
It's a new year and I'm unemployed so what better time to restart this podcast. This is just a cheeky little tease ep, but a brand new episode with a fascinating guest will be out this Wednesday. Hurrah.
I have set up a Patreon for the show, not to become a billionaire but to try to cover the basic costs associated with making this thing (transport/time/snacks).
I really appreciate anything you can give (if you can afford it). PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE NO REWARDS FOR BECOMING A PATRON. YOU GET JACK SHIT, OK? SORRY.
You can become a Patron here if you like.
It's nice to be back. Talk soon.
My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
This Sunday I'm performing in Trevor Ashley's MARDI GALA at the Sydney Opera House
Luke McGregor and I are coming to Nelson Bay and Belmont in March
Learn more about Victorian Socialists
School students are striking for climate action again on March 15th
This is part two of an interview I recorded live at the inaugural Yack Festival at Giant Dwarf a few weeks ago.
Stan Grant is a journalist, author and presenter who has worked all over the world for the likes of CNN, Sky News, SBS World News, NITV, the Guardian and the ABC. He is a Wiradjuri man who writes and speaks about race, racism and history in Australia, most recently in his Quarterly Essay released last year, The Australian Dream. He has just become the ABC’s Chief Asia Correspondent and will host a nightly discussion show on ABC News next year.
In this second part of our conversation, I ask Stan about one or two things I've heard about him and picked his brain on his critics, plus we take some questions from the floor. I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to pick Stan’s brain. Big thanks to the Giant Dwarf and Yack for having us and to all the Sydney friends who came along.
Due to Tonightly (my cool TV show that you can watch every bloody night of the week!), I won’t be able to bring you another podcast for a little while I’m afraid. But hey, there’s a back catalogue of 121 episodes for you to enjoy at your leisure. YOU ARE WELCOME.
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Quarterly Essay – The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming by Stan Grant
It is a ‘damaging myth’ that Captain Cook discovered Australia by Stan Grant
Cause of the Week: The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (aief.com.au)