New Horizons In Violence (N.H.I.V.) were the world’s most blackly subversive mashed media terrortainment group during the War on Terror. Our complete film has finally been released – here’s the full story.
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Laughy 30th, You Bastards
To mark the 30th anniversary of Melbourne community TV Channel 31, a look back at the station’s first sketch comedy show: Laugh You Bastards.
Why I got out the red pen to correct 997 Squishbooks.
SQUISHBOOK is a book for kids put together by the talented and lovely comic artists at Squishface Studio, and I’m thrilled to have been a contributing writer.
I’m so grateful to Screen Australia for supporting Alli Parker and I to write a draft of FLIP, a genre-smashing film about the role Australia played in the birth of competitive women’s skateboarding, a sport which, 20 years later, has become an Olympic highlight.
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Lost in the past…
It was 20 years ago todayish… Craig Tonkin and I released a doco, The PhanDom Menace, about a Star Wars fan club around the time of the release of the first prequel, Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It ended up being distributed on DVD around the world, marking the first time I was paid for […]
Does January 26 actually mark the arrival of the British on our shores – or the French? (Originally published 25 January 2019 on The Project website.) Here at The Project, we absolutely love Australia. We’re true blue fair dinkum bonza cobbers, jolly jumbuck rustling billabong swagpeople, by jingo. I hope that establishes our patriotic credentials. […]
After 228 years and even more drafts, may I present to you the show that will challenge everything you think you know about the First Fleet: BRUCE. BRUCE – The Full Series For more information on this incredible black comedy convict web series, starring Richard Davies, Dave Lawson, Angus Sampson, visit http://BruceTheSeries.com. Or you could […]
Hello readers, or spambots or whoever’s looking this way. According to the logs, there still seem to be tens of thousands of you per month, so I apologise to any actual humans who have been checking back here on a regular basis in the hope of seeing some new content. Those of you who are […]
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Back from the dead
Well it has been a bloody long time since I’ve posted here. Sorry about that, old chums. So here’s an update about goings-on at The Empire. Since August, I’ve been working at The Project as a writer and web producer, which means running the content on their web site, as well as writing possible jokes […]