I’m touring my comedy lecture about Australia’s treatment of refugees around the country in 2017.

The show was created with the help of the Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Grant and was nominated for the Barry Award at the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Guardian Australia liked it very much indeed. I hope you will too.

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SYDNEY: JAN 13th – 15th (4 SHOWS ONLY) @ BELVOIR THEATRE 

Tickets from $25 – $49, available here.

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PERTH: FEB 4th & 5th (2 SHOWS ONLY) @ HEATH LEDGER THEATRE

5:30pm. Tickets from $31, available here.

AUSLAN interpreted on Sunday Feb 5th.

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ADELAIDE: FEB 18th & 19th, 25th & 26th (4 SHOWS ONLY) @ TANDANYA THEATRE  

4:30pm. Full $32, Concession $25. Tickets available here.

AUSLAN interpreted on Sunday Feb 26th.

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BRISBANE: SAT MARCH 25th & SUN 26th (2 SHOWS ONLY) @ ITHACA AUDITORIUM, BRISBANE CITY HALL

4:15pm. Full price $32, Concession $25. Tickets available here.

AUSLAN interpreted on Sunday March 26th.

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MELBOURNE: SAT APRIL 22nd (1 SHOW ONLY) @ THE COMEDY THEATRE 

5:00pm. Tickets $24 – $32. Tickets available here.

AUSLAN interpreted.

This was drunken fun. You can grab it for free here.

So I’ll be joining Ray Martin, David Oldfield, Natalie Imbruglia, Nicki Wendt, Dicko and Renae Ayris in season 2 of Blackfella Films’ First Contact. The three-part series will screen on SBS in late November.

This show was one of the most rewarding and challenging things I’ve ever been a part of. I laughed and cried and at one point I threw up.

I really hope you can tune in and check it out.

If you’re in Daylesford and like laughing a lot whilst simultaneously raising money for Australia’s only primary school centred around Buddhist principles (the good ones, not the dodgy ones), come along to this!

More info and tickets here.

This massive celebration of welcoming goodness is on again in 2016!

I’ll be MCing the Melbourne event and will be bursting with pride to do so, particularly in this time when it seems many Australians want to further harden their hearts and foster hatred and fear rather than love and inclusiveness.

You know – all that good hippy shit.

The walk is happening on Saturday October 22nd all around on the country. Find out where it’s happening near you.

Sydney-based Belvoir has a strong season, but this critic’s pick is Boundless Plains to Share, in which comedian Tom Ballard presents something like stand-up comedy crossed with a slide night as he desperately tries to understand, explain and activate an audience against Australia’s punitive refugee policy.

Politicised on the issue since the age of 14, Ballard’s involvement with the Welcome to Australia movement brought him into contact with refugees in and out of detention. He encountered stories he found both uplifting and heartbreaking, and these stories permeate a show that is laugh-out-loud funny and enraging at the same time.

Ballard developed Boundless Plains to Share under the guidance and direction of Scott Edgar – more commonly known as Scod from Tripod – who had been helping the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre for many years. It’s a good theatrical match, avoiding both mawkishness and over-earnestness in its presentation of the kinds of stories often emotively retold by the well meaning – and sometimes compromised as a result.

Ballard’s show was made possible by a Moosehead award – it allowed him to pursue something close to his heart without anxiety about commercial returns. Belvoir’s selection of Boundless Plains to Share vindicates the professional support Ballard received to make it.

You can read the whole article here and you can book tickets to the Belvoir run here.

This will be great! And for a great cause! And you can potentially go for free!

Details here.

I’m coming back to this delightful venue for 6 shows in September and would love you to come please yes yes.

Tickets are available here. 

You guys my show The World Keeps Happening got nominated for the 2016 lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards. How bloody ridiculous.

It was a true honour to be up there alongside the likes of Nish Kumar, Al Porter, Kieran Hodgson, Richard Gadd, James Acaster and my fellow Australians Zoe Coombs-Marr and Randy. A huge congrats to Richard for taking out the big prize, rendering the rest of us worthless losers.

Sincerest thank yous to Assembly Festival, Token Artists, the Pinder family, my flyerers, my techs Nikolai and Jamie, my family and of course all of you out there who actually came and watched the thing. I’m a lucky laddy indeed.