I wrote a piece for this sweet comedy edition of the always-brilliant Big Issue.

You can find out more here. Buy it from your local vendors when you see them around please!

Great news! I wrote a little piece about QLD (finally) abolishing the “gay panic” defence, thanks to the tireless work of Father Paul Kelly. Please read it here.

I’m guest hosting this! Should be a fascinating discussion. Find out more here, tune in live and have your say.

I’m organising this charity gig during MICF and YOU TOTALLY HAVE TO COME. I can’t tell you the line up but it is A++++ and it’s a bloody damn good cause.

Book your tickets here now

People become refugees for lots of different reasons.

MEHDI SAVARI lived in Iran. His job was to tell jokes. One day he dared to tell some jokes.

Those jokes put him in danger and he had to escape.

Now he finds himself on Manus Island. He’s been there for more than three years.

Meanwhile in Australia, comedians can take the piss out of the government as much as they like. They’re quite inclined to do so, particularly when that government does things like putting Mehdi on Manus Island.

In this extraordinary event, a stellar line up of the best comedians at the Festival come together to perform in solidarity with Mehdi and all the other victims of Australia’s refugee policies.

This secret line up of champions will be (literally) standing up for justice and for not treating people like dicks. Plus they’ll be raising some much-needed cash for the HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE: an organisation that fights every single day for the rights and protection of refugees and people seeking asylum.

Hosted by award-winning comedian and aspiring sex symbol TOM BALLARD and featuring the finest comedic talent from Australia and across the world (and maybe even a musical treat or two), STAND UP FOR MEHDI is sure to be a stand out event at MICF 2017. Don’t miss it.

I loved hosting this panel for The Wheeler Centre with Stephen Oliver, Geraldine Hickey and Demi Lardner on being queer and doing comedy.

Listen to the whole thing here.

I had a delightful chat with the delightful comedian Sofie Hagen back in August and she’s just now posted it.

It’s a chat about Boundless Plains, why I’m a comedian, trying to be a good person and aliens. I hope you get something out of it; listen to the full thing here.

Come to this! It’s a good cause with a sizzling hot line up. Tickets available here.

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.

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).

Read it in full here.