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Inside Politics Podcast

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2020

Rendezview.

  • Governments can do more to tackle domestic violence. So why aren’t they?

Contexts Magazine

Start Making Sense (2ser)

2019

Rendezview.

  • El Paso tells an uncomfortable truth about mass shootings

  • Talking about male violence means nothing without action

  • Liam Neeson shouldn’t be ‘cancelled’

2018

The Overland Journal.

  • Racists on speaking tour: rethinking our response

All articles available here.

Rendezview.

  • Gay or straight, acting is acting

  • How identity politics is shutting people up

SBS Sexuality.

  • Why George Michael’s ‘Faith’ is one of the most important queer albums of our time

  • Estrangement from friends and family is very real for many transgender Australians

  • The long-lasting impact of being estranged from your family due to your sexuality

  • The criminalisation of unintentional HIV transmission, and why it doesn’t work

  • Nature vs. Nurture: when it comes to gendered behaviour it’s more complex than we thought

  • Is non-monogamy the new sexual frontier?

  • History lesson: the first queer venues?

  • Threats, violence, hope: what it’s like to be a gay activist in Indonesia.

  • First, do no harm: new report denounces human rights violations against intersex people

  • History lesson: Why saunas remain important to gay culture

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The Guardian Online.

  • Marriage equality has passed but there’s more to be done for a fairer society

  • Underlying the celebrations is an immense feeling of hurt and pain

  • We didn’t want the postal survey, but let’s focus on the positives following it

  • Anxiety is a way of life for Gen Y. In an insecure world, is it any surprise?

  • Bride and Prejudice: why does reality TV continue to disappoint us?

All articles available here.

The Overland Journal.

  • Otto Warmbier was a victim of capitalism

  • Ending the ‘criminal class’

  • A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics

  • How to get out of this mess

All articles available here.

Junkee.

  • Why I’m celebrating LGBTIQ progress and letting go of the pain

  • Is ‘Common Sense’ the news and politics show Australia needs right now?

2016

SBS Sexuality.

  • 11 big wins LGBT+ Aussies celebrated in 2016

  • The medical community’s approach to intersex people is still primarily focused on ‘normalising ‘ surgeries

  • Will Russia’s backlash against LGBT+ people be replicated in the USA under Trump?

  • Indigenous HIV infection rates requires new preventative strategies

  • Is it time to replace the ‘Alphabet Soup’?

  • Should we mandate condoms in porn?

  • Stop trashing the Irish Referendum

  • In defence (sort of) of gay conservatives

  • The history and importance of gay beats

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The Guardian Online.

  • Screen bites: can a show like You Can’t Ask That change the conversation?

  • Attacks against queer people have a long history. It’s time we changed our defence.

  • In challenging homophobia gay men have become our own oppressors

All articles available here.

Junkee.

  • Why The Secret Life of US meant so much to a generation of LGBTQI Australians

2015

SBS News.

  • On the verge of a post-antibiotic world

  • Can we have a sensible debate about sharks?

  • Don’t be too excited over Malcolm Turnbull’s newfound love for science

  • When is it okay to boo the Prime Minister?

  • ‘New Atheism’ takes on a boy and his clock

  • Abbott is gone, forgive me for not being excited

  • Will Serena Williams make US Open history — on her own terms?

  • Abbott, Turnbull or Morrison? Who cares? It doesn’t matter.

  • Calais ‘crisis’ a product of the failures of our political class.

  • As Barack Obama moves on justice reform is it time for Australia to follow?

  • If the Labor Left can’t get boat turn backs right, then why do they exist?

  • What role can unions play when we have role models like this?

  • The end is in sight for the coal industry

  • Same-sex marriage has been won

  • Bring on the marriage equality referendum

  • Sex, guys and video games

  • We were unable to save them, but we can remember them

  • Let’s not rush to judge Billy Gordon

  • The sharing economy — how another technological ‘savior’ is failing us

  • Why is the ALP negotiating on the Renewable Energy Target?

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The Guardian Online.

  • Telling people not to shop at Christmas is nothing more than snobbery

  • Review: is our search for genetic answers cultural rather than scientific

  • Born this way: society, sexuality and the search for the gay gene

  • CIA torture is only part of medical sciences’ modern dark history

  • I have two boyfriends. It’s time polyamory became socially acceptable

  • Dating two people at the same time: why I’m polyamorous and proud

  • Equality and polyamory: why early humans weren’t the Flintstones

  • Is really good sex what happens at a sex festival? I went to find out.

All articles available here.

Junkee.

  • If Bill Shorten really wants to achieve marriage equality he’s going about it the wrong way

  • The SCOTUS decision was a win for marriage, not a win for love

  • Australia might actually win Eurovision 2015 this weekend. Here’s why.

  • Tony Abbott’s no jab no pay policy is misdirected and won’t work

  • Mardi Gras is a celebration we need to be having, but it’s losing its political core

SBS Sexuality.

  • Why the ‘gay gene’ doesn’t fit modern sexuality

  • A queer guide to the 2016 US presidential election

  • Time for CHOGM to address LGBTI rights abuses

All articles available here.

How We Get To Next.

  • The global race is on to replace roads with more sustainable materials

  • Food sharing Apps may reduce billions of pounds of waste

  • Could seeds planted by fleets of gardening drones save the world’s forests

  • France Mandates that its roofs be covered in solar panels and garden — should we too?

2014

2017

SBS News.

  • Nuclear power: there is no magical solution to climate change

  • Will Lambie be the new Palmer?

  • The environment movement shouldn’t have supported Direct Action

  • We cannot expect another Gough, nor should we want one

  • The Bachelor highlights our confused relationship with love

  • I’m glad Abbott didn’t attend the NY Climate Summit

  • A conversation can change a life on R U OK Day

  • United by rugby, but a long road ahead to end discrimination

  • A sense of community in Helsinki, while our car culture continues

  • Royal Commission or political munition?

  • Coalition losing its grip on carbon tax mandate

  • What on earth is going on with Australian climate politics?

  • LGBTIQ youth biggest winners of the High Court’s chaplaincy ruling

  • You’re wrong, Mr Hockey: class warfare is precisely what we need

  • Are broken promises that important?

  • Who pays for selling off social services?

  • It’s time for some real direct action

  • A. Political culture of power and influence rotten to the core

  • Wake up and smell the coal smoke

  • Bordering on silence

  • Why do we hate asylum seekers?

  • What cutting environmental regulations will do

  • Ali Choundhry’s problems are far from over

All articles available here.

The Guardian Online.

  • The Block: Our renovation nation is chipping away at the Australian dream

  • Jackie Lambie is the whole package: politicians are humans too

  • Could the men of roller derby become sport’s first male feminists?

  • Is libertarianism good for LGBTI rights?

  • Rocky Horror Show: 40 years on - where is its world of absolute pleasure?

  • What’s wrong with choosing to be gay, anyway?

  • March in March doesn’t offer credible alternatives

All articles available here.

Junkee.

  • How taking naked photos of yourself in the shower can help fight stigma around HIV/AIDS

  • We need a Scotland-style national debate in Australia

  • This while Mike Carlton mess is terrible for our freedom of press. Here’s why.

  • Idolising our sports ‘stars’ and the nasty, dangerous mindset it creates

  • Junk explained: why is everyone tweeting about the Great Barrier Reef?

  • How to write a dirty song

  • Why Eurovision might be the most important show on TV

The Overland Journal.

  • Against experts

  • The anti-Abbott movement: time to rethink

All articles available here.

Mammamia.

  • I’m not sorry you might have to talk to your kids about condoms today

  • Should we have boycotted the Sochi Olympics?

2013

SBS News.

  • Coalition versus the Opposition — losing, but not winning

  • It’s not just about jobs

  • Pyne was right, let’s go back to the drawing board on Gonski

  • Abbott’s own history wars

  • ‘Just deal with it, Indonesia’ isn’t real foreign policy

  • The reinvention of Julia Gillard

  • Clive and Tony are no joke

  • Some lessons for the ALP on climate messaging

  • Time to drop the ‘marriage equality’ tagline

  • What will same-sex marriage actually mean?

  • How to stop the repeal of the carbon tax

  • The logic of Gillard’s opposition to same-sex marriage

All articles available here.

The Guardian Online.

  • Keep our coal in the ground

  • A Malcolm Turnbull Comeback would not be good for the left

  • Australia should show more respect to its public servants

  • Green tape should be strengthened, not cut

All articles available here.

The Overland Journal.

  • Men’s roles in women’s spaces

  • Against equality

  • Wikileak’s ideology problem

  • Turkey and the fight for space

  • The debate we should be having

All articles available here.

Mammamia.

  • I won’t be praising anything the Pope has to say

  • Howard Sattler’s comments are why we need to tackle homophobia

  • Do we only care about trolling when celebrities are victims?

The Drum Online.

  • Surplus debate is a problem of leadership

Crikey.

  • Dennis Altman’s The End of the Homosexual

2012

Crikey.

  • Murdoch paradox: bias in climate reporting

  • Fact check: coral reefs will not ‘bloom’ under climate change

  • Murray-Darling health dependent on water extraction plans

  • Global warming may not cause drought

  • Food prices soaring due to global warming

  • Antarctic melt alarm as scientist find ‘very unusual’ warming

The Drum Online.

  • Reality check: some jobs will have to go

  • End the cynicism and start demanding better

  • The war against renewable energy

  • A good year for climate campaigners

2011

The Drum Online.

  • New approach needed to tackle population problem

  • Without society change, law change is useless

  • Is science sascrosanct?