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Kerri-Anne goes Rainbow on tonight's Report 5 Feb 2009

February 5th 2009 02:27
Kerri-Anne Kennerley
Kerri-Anne Kennerley


Tonight another program of news and current affairs for the Rainbow Crew, ably assisted tonight by Cathy Anderson, who’s fresh ( if that’s the correct word) from Girlfest and Tim Wilson from the Institute of Public Affairs.


Now I must apologise in advance for any bumping and grinding noises you may hear in the background during the show – Kaye Sera is on the roof erecting her tent for her Camping Out show up there, so she can’t be with us tonight. Her show runs till Sunday.

However, we have a most worthy replacement. Last week there was a lot of fuss about Ian Thorpe’s sexuality, making the comparison between his vast sponsorship income and the complete lack of sponsor interest in gay diver Matthew Mitcham.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley decided to throw her weight behind Matthew and interviewed him on her show. She joins us tonight to explain why.

In a surprise move, the Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Commission has decided it was OK for the Liberal Party to call us ‘socially destructive’ because it would only incite hatred in people who already hated us anyway. Rodney Croome has that story for us.

More surprises from the city of Sydney, who have decided they’d like Mardi Gras to follow most gay Sydneysiders and leave Oxford Street, and hold the Mardi Gras Parade and Party at Homebush Stadium. Mardi Gras chair David Imrie explains.


And staying in Sydney, we’ll be chatting with Harley Dennett of the Star Observer, who this week published a major interview with Michael Kirby.

Closer to home, Mornington Peninsula is about to get its own gay magazine – we’ll catch up with the publishers to see how they’re faring in the current difficult climate, when advertising revenues are falling everywhere.

Any time you want to join in our discussion, put a question, call 03 9699 2949, text 0427 JOY 949, or if you’re listening online, email onair@joy.org.au
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On The Rainbow Report Thursday Night

August 6th 2008 06:45
Rainbow Reporter
Every Thursday evening 7-8pm AEST broadcasting live from Melbourne on Joy 94.9FM, streaming live at www.joy.org.au. Podcasts available on the Joy site by the weekend.

Last week we had a few things to say about Jeff Kennett, but he’s rather gone to ground since then. But the issue of gays in sport, the entrenched homophobia in sport, hasn’t gone away. In fact, if anything Jeffs intervention made it worse.
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So we’re going to look at what’s being done to tackle the issue. We’ve got Patrick Kean, Media Relations Manager of the AFL, plus a representative of the VCFL, and maybe even a director from an AFL club - we're still working on that one!

Plus, of course, with us in the studio we'll have our resident expert, former president of Lexton Plains Football Club and scourge of sporting homophobia, Rob Mitchell of the RJM Trust.

I'll be ably assisted by the lesbian journo tag team, so to speak, of Andie Noonan from bnews, and back on the show after a short break, my good friend Cathy Anderson from Mx.

And making a welcome return to Joy after an even longer absence, taking her own inimitable look Under The Bonnet of current affairs, the incomparable Kaye Sera. Yes, the thinking man’s drag queen is back!

Kaye Sera
Kaye Sera


We’ll be catching up with affairs in Tasmania with Rodney Croome and the gay blood-donation ban case, and visit Queensland in the company of Rod Goodbun

Join in any time during the show: text us on (Australia) 0427 JOY 949, or if you’re listening online, drop us an email to onair@joy.org.au. Or phone us on 61 (0)3 9699 2949 to have your say. We might even put you live to air!
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Pigs worth more than Queers

August 4th 2008 03:22
Piglet
Neil Mitchell's priority
On 3AW talkback shock-jock Neil Mitchell heavily downplayed the seriousness of Jeff Kennetts remarks comparing bisexuals to paedophiles, making it sound as though the gay community had overreacted.

And took no calls on the issue, preferring nice safe chats with piglovers and pigfarmers about animal welfare and cruelty.

Mitchell interviewed ALSO Chief Executive Lyn Morgain about the ad the gay community placed in the Age at the weekend.

His questioning was fairly hostile.

He tried to imply that despite the mass of organizations that had put their names to the ad, they only represented a small number of people. He wanted to know how many individuals those groups represented.

He also questioned the right of arts groups like the Queer Film Festival and Midsumma to buy into the ad.

He tried to mount an attack on the basis that these groups could be using public money to pay for the ad. He appeared not to understand that grant funding is usually quarantined for specific purposes and so could not be used for political purposes.

Then he insisted that Jeff hadn’t been given enough chance to respond. When did you call Jeff? Friday afternoon? Far too late – the ad would have been booked then.

He brushed aside the information that Richard Watts of MCV (and numerous others, including myself, James Campbell [the Sunday Herald Sun journalist who broke the story] and Neil Mitchell himself) had been unable to get a response, because “they’re journalists, that’s different.”

Lyn fought back, pointing out that Jeff was not a victim, and the community concern was for the young people at risk.

Mitchell wrapped up the interview saying it would have been better to have contacted Jeff first, what Jeff said was “silly and badly worded – not taken out of context, badly worded” – but it would have been fairer to handle it differently and give Jeff a chance to respond.

Well, Jeff had many many chances to withdraw his remarks and apologise in the course of the week, and refused to do so. He’s been asked numerous times to permit the release of the verbatim transcript of the interview to prove he was taken out of context, and he hasn’t, probably because he knows that would show that he has been accurately reported. That leaves James Campbell looking like he really did distort what Kennett said – and I have now spoken to two people to whom Campbell has read what he says is the full transcript, and based on that I would have to say Kennett was fairly and accurately reported.

And finally, Neil Mitchell – making the excuse that he didn’t have the original text in front of him (such sloppy preparation, Neil?) – made no mention of the key fact: that Kennett clearly stated that the risk of having a bisexual in the change rooms was the same as the risk of having a paedophile in the sacristy.

Mitchell merely mumbled something about Kennett having been interpreted as saying that any gay man was predatory and going to force himself on people. That would have been bad enough, but that’s not what Jeff said. Jeff said it was as if you had a paedophile at the club.

Either Mitchell was woefully unprepared, or willfully distorting the facts and thereby belittling the cause of the community anger.

It is also telling that he took no calls on the issue, but went back to taking calls about cruelty (or not) of docking piglets tails and teeth in pigfarming. I guess pigs are worth more than poufs in Mitchelland.
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