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Radio National interview
I got to chat to Hamish McDonald on Radio National Breakfast about the ideas behind Boundless Plains To Share. You can listen to it here.
The show is coming to Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne next, details here.
88 – Sally Goldner
Happy 2017 everyone!
Sally Goldner is the Executive Director of Transgender Victoria, the treasurer of the Bisexual Alliance Victoria and the first ever trans woman to be included on the Victorian Women’s Honour Roll.
Here she kindly shares her personal journey from the “soulless life” she lived for 30 years to the defiant person she is today. She lays out the challenges facing gender diverse folk, including the discrimination that often comes from within the queer community itself, outlines her thoughts on everything from identity politics to Cate McGregor and argues for the queer rights movement to take a more assertive and uncompromising approach to those who oppose us.
Boundless Plains to Share is on this weekend at the Belvoir Theatre, 4 shows only
And Boundless is coming to Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane & Melbourne in the coming months, on sale now
My new stand up show Problematic is coming to Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane & Melbourne, on sale now
My piece for Fairfax: A brand new Dutton-worthy citizenship test, with extra values
Article: Sally Goldner lands top award for her dedication to transgender advocacy
Article: A ten point guide to not offending transgender people
Cause of the Week: Transgender Victoria (transgendervictoria.com), 3CR (3cr.org.au), Bisexual Alliance Victoria (bi-alliance.org)
A new Dutton-worthy citizenship test
My piece for Fairfax:
Well boys and girls, it’s January in Australia, and we all know what that means: family holidays, sizzling barbecues and blatant racism. Hooray! What would Australia Day season be without our political leaders wheeling out some sweet nationalism infused with xenophobia?
Why, that would simply be forgetting the reason for the season.
Anti-Immigration Minister Peter Dutton got into the spirit of things this week as he called for a revamp of the citizenship test that prospective Australians have to undertake. “We need to have a look at the way we welcome people into our country,” he said (the phrase “TELL US ABOUT IT!” could be heard echoing around Nauru and Manus Island).
87 – Adam Bandt (Live)
The Greens MP for Melbourne Adam Bandt joined me for the first ever live instalment of LIASYO.
Recorded in Collingwood on Sunday afternoon at the Easy Street Concert Hall in Collingwood, Melbourne, this discussion examines how Adam, the only Greens MP ever elected to the House of Representatives, is feeling at the end of what has been, largely, a shitty year for progressive causes.
An eternal optimist, Adam picks apart Turnbull’s legacy, parliament’s effectiveness, Trumpism, neoliberalism, the future of the Greens and how progressives can get better at winning. He even manages to find some good news in all of this.
AND he tells a great story about getting a voicemail from Tony Abbott. AND he tells us what he admires about Christopher Pyne.
This will be the final ep for the year, I’m going to have a break and cry more and drink beer and get sunburnt and think more about the revolution. Never fear: the show shall return in 2017. Thanks for everything, y’all.
My 2017 stand up show Problematic is coming to Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney
Boundless Plains To Share is coming to Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane & Melbourne
Article: When Indigenous Australia becomes entertainment, everybody loses by Jack Latimore
Article: Greens in radical new drug legalisation push by Adam Gartrell
Cause of the Week: Sea Shepherd Australia (seashepherd.org.au)
Boundless Plains To Share (2017)
Problematic (2017)
86 – First Contact Episode 2 Reaction (with Nayuka Gorrie)
Nayuka Gorrie returns to unpack Episode 2 of First Contact with me. It’s bloody tough going as the episode looks at overcrowded housing and poverty in the NT town of Elliott and survivors of the Stolen Generation.
What does the airing of this show actually mean for Indigenous Australians? Why do some react to the stories of the Stolen Generation with blatant denialism? How can non-Indigenous people (try to) be better allies?
The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre this Saturday December 3rd
Watch Episode 2 on SBS On Demand here
“It Throws Black People Under The Bus”: Black Reactions to First Contact by Nayuka & Paul Gorrie
First Contact: Poverty Porn And Trauma TV, With Bonus Celebrities by Amy McQuire
First Contact interview: Ray Martin
StolenGenerationsTestimonies.com
A story on Richard Campbell’s beautiful art is here
Cause of the Week: Indigenous Literacy Foundation (indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au)
85 – First Contact Episode 1 Reaction (with Nayuka Gorrie)
Episode 1 of First Contact has arrived.
The kind Nayuka Gorrie joined me for a viewing of the show and to share her thoughts. We discuss #DefineAboriginal, the difficulty in making a show like this and the issues and attitudes it exposes.
Watch Episode 1 on SBS demand here
Read my piece for Guardian Australia on the show here
Hear my previous episode with Nayuka here
Check out some discussion of the show from Indigenous voices on the NITV website here
84 – Jamila Rizvi
Jamila Rizvi is a writer, commentator, former Labor staffer and political junkie. She was raised in Canberra by her immigrant public service parents, joined the Labor Party at 18 and has worked for the Rudd and Gillard governments.
In this frank and funny chat, Jamila reflects on her political pragmatism, the “Labor tragedy” that was the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years and what her passionate exchange with Steve Price on The Project revealed to her about trolls, debate and PC.
The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday December 3rd
First Contact series 2 starts Tuesday November 29th on SBS
Jamila’s writing on news.com.au
change.org petition: Call for The Project to apologise to Steve Price live on air
A message to Steve Price and his supporters: grow up and get over it by Clementine Ford
Cause of the Week: CARE Australia (care.org.au)