Benjamin Law is a Sydney-based TV screenwriter, journalist and newspaper columnist.

He’s the author of The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012) (both of which were nominated for the Australian Book Industry Awards), co-author of the comedy book Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014) with his sister Michelle, and has written the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 (2017) on the Safe Schools scandal. He also co-wrote Law School (2017), a book about sex, with his mother.

The Family Law became a six-part television series for the SBS network in 2016, which Benjamin created and co-wrote with Marieke Hardy, and Kirsty Fisher and Lawrence Leung. The show won the 2016 Screen Producers Awards for Best Comedy and was nominated for two Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. In 2018, episode 4 of series 2 was shortlisted for the Betty Rolan Prize for Scriptwriting in the NSW Premier’s Literature Awards. 

Benjamin is also a regular contributes, including for Good Weekend, frankie and The Monthly. He has written for over 50 publications, businesses and agencies in Australia and worldwide, and has a PhD in creative writing and cultural studies.

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Ben appeared at our second ‘The Garret LIVE at the Library event in June 2018. You can listen to the live recording of that interview here.

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The Garret is committed to accessibility and education. The transcript and interactive show notes of Benjamin's interview are available at www.thegarretpodcast.com/benjamin-law.