“Apocalypse” and “Cage Fight on Crack!” – these were two of the many twitter predictions for Monday night’s ABC Q&A, with myself, Germaine Greer, Barnaby Joyce, Paul Barry and Joe Hildebrand on the panel.
Another person predicted Germaine Greer would rip the arms off Barnaby Joyce and beat the rest of the panel with them. There was also a request for mud and pillow fights.
None of these eventuated – probably a source of great disappointment for many.
Here’s a picture of Germaine Greer, Tony Jones and me, with my friends Pateenah and Kiara, after the show. And below that, Julie Gale from Kids Free to be Kids.
And here’s the show if you missed it
I also did an interview with ABC ACT 7.30 Report last Friday. You can view it here:
Off to Melbourne for our first official launch of Big Porn Inc tomorrow, with Clive Hamilton doing the honours and a number of contributors speaking. It’s at Readings, Hawthorn, 6pm for 6.30pm. No need to RSVP. Look forward to saying hello to any readers of the MTR blog who can make it.
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You didn’t just survive – you triumphed! Was so excited when the conversation finally turned to pornography (goodness… I don’t say THAT often…) and off you went. So many important things being put into the public sphere for discussion; the shock on some of the audience members faces when you reeled off some of your statistics was evidence of how much they needed to be heard. Loved Germaine and Paul too!
MTR didn’t just survive it, I thought what she said put all of the humour to one side and said ‘this is a serious issue that we need to think long and hard about – it’s damaging our culture and it’ll only make the future worse.’
well done!