Stoked to be an ambassador for Welcome To Australia, a non-for-profit organisation aimed at fostering a culture of welcome for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants coming to our country. I think they’re pretty bloody tops.
You can see my ambassador page here, you can keep up with what WTA events here and you can even donate to the very worthy cause if you like.
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Over on radiotoday.com.au, they’re running a series called The Brutal Truth, about the relationship between stand up comedy and radio. I chipped in my two cents, which were promptly dwarfed by the millions of cents by the likes of Tony Martin and Dave O’Neil and Marty Sheargold and Wendy Harmer and Tom Gleeson.
Interesting reading if it’s your thang.
I’m doing some things at the 2013 Nation Young Writers Festival in Newcastle in the first weekend of October. They will be fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.
I’m doing a reading at a show called First Time For Everything (Friday October 4th, 8-10pm), a reading at a show called Hi, Heartbeak (Oct 4th, 11pm – midnight) and appearing at a panel entitled How Not To Be A Douche (Saturday October 5th, 2:30-3:30pm).
If you don’t want any of that, there’s heaps of cool other stuff going down, worth checking out the site if you’re in the area.
If you haven’t noticed, it’s an election year! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy or whatever.
To celebrate, myself and journalist/funk enthusiast Tom Tilley will be live on triple j Saturday night to run you through electoral results, make jokes and play SIK AZ BEATZ.
We’ll be talking to some pollies, crossing to party headquarters, premiering a brand new political protest song from The Beards and generally trying to make it not painful.
We go live from 6pm AEST; you can stream it here.
Of course, it’s all pointless, what with the Harlem Globetrotters already predicting the outcome with their psychic basketball skills:
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