Ben Eltham is the National Affairs Correspondent for New Matilda, the Industry Columnist for Arts Hub and has written for Guardian Australia, the ABC’s The Drum, Crikey and many other outlets. He’s a Research Fellow at Deakin University’s Faculty of Arts and Education and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development.

Basically, he’s a major smarty-pants.

Ben’s very, very good at explaining things and in this chat he kindly took the time to explain to me what the hell negative gearing is and what it means for Australia’s housing crisis. We also discuss the myth of a “classless Australia”, tax dodging, neoliberalism, the government’s attacks on the arts and how the 2016 election is shaping up.

The World Keeps Happening at the Sydney Comedy Festival this week for TWO NIGHTS ONLY

My speeches at the MICF Great Debate, “Everyone’s Entitled To An Opinion”

Five Reasons The Myth About Liberals Running The Economy Best Must Die by Costa A

Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs Speaks Out by Ramona Kavol

We Are The Forgotten People: The Anguish of Australia’s Invisible Asylum Seekers by Ben Doherty & Abdul Karim Hekmat

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Ben’s writing at New Matilda

Ben’s writing at Crikey

Why Labor Are Right To Chase Turnbull’s Wealth by Ben Eltham

Don’t bank On ASIC Saving The Day: The Case For A Royal Commission Is Open and Shut by Ben Eltham

The Baaing Of Our Artists by Andrew Bolt

Neoliberalism: The Ideology At The Root Of All Our Problems by George Monbiot

RRR radio

New Matilda

Cause of the Week: Alzeihmer’s Australia (fightdementia.org.au)

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Nayuka Gorrie is a Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman who’s passionate about progress for Indigenous Australians.

After reading her piece for Vice entitled Fuck Your Constitutional Recognition, I Want A Treaty, I scurried into her (beautiful) bedroom (with her permission) to talk about the problematic nature of recognition, the echoing trauma of the Stolen Generation, white Australia’s denialism, what an Indigenous treaty might look like and, of course, Andrew Bolt.

The World Keeps Happening at the Sydney Comedy Festival for TWO NIGHTS ONLY

My final blog for TheMusic.com.au, wrapping up MICF 2016

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Nayuka on the Foundation for Young Australians

Maddee Clarke on twitter – @intoreceiving

Welcome to Country App

Colouring The Rainbow

Peopling The Empty Mirror

Gregory Phillips: Should Australian Cities Bear Indigenous Language Names?

Causes of the Week: Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention & Legal Service (fvpls.org, Sisters’ Day Out), Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network (seedmob.org.au)

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Journalist, anthropologist and broadcaster Sally Warhaft is a former editor of The Monthly, host of The Wheeler Centre’s Fifth Estate podcast and mother to one-year-old twins.

In this wide-ranging chat, Sally diagnoses the current state of Australian politics, laments the lack of great political oratory today, explains why Malcolm Turnbull is politically “rooted”, shares her thoughts on the cruelty of the death penalty and her friendship with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and gives me a bit of an insight into anthropology.

I gots nominated for the 2016 Barry Award golly gee!

The World Keeps Happening at the Melbourne Comedy Festival

Boundless Plains To Share at the Melbourne Comedy Festival

The World Keeps Happening at the Sydney Comedy Festival

The 2016 MICF Great Debate on tenplay

Article: “I’ve cried researching my comedy show about refugees”

The Wheeler Centre’s Fifth Estate podcast

Well May We Say: The Speeches That Made Australia  

Cause of the Week: Reprieve Australia (reprieve.org.au)

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