Nevena interviews Osman  Faruqi was the culture news editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age between February 2022 and August 2024.] Previously he was Schwartz Media‘s head of audio, presenter of The Culture podcast, and editor of daily news podcast, 7am. He worked as the deputy editor of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s ABC Life and as a reporter with the ABC’s investigative audio program, Background Briefing, and was the former political editor at Junkee. He is also known as a contributor to The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and others.

What’s the current mood in Melbourne’s hospitality scene: are we seeing recovery post-pandemic, or is the sector still crawling back to solid ground?

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Nevena and Osman talk to Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health, UNSW Sydney, ‘Extreme Online Masculinity and Fitness”

Some of the topics covered are:

They also discuss Sam’s latest article for The Conversation

“A new Netflix documentary about a shirtless supplement salesman who claimed to be “natural” and was exposed as a fraud might seem like a punchline.

But Untold: The Liver King is more than just a character study of a well-known fitness influencer; it’s a case study of performative masculinity in the world of social media.

Brian Johnson, better known as the Liver King, built a brand on extreme workouts, eating raw organ meat, and evangelising about masculinity. He preached “ancestral living” and radical self-control, all while secretly using steroids.

And his rapid rise to popularity reveals how social media rewards the spectacle of hypermasculinity – especially when it leans into extreme behaviours.

Extreme self-discipline, extreme exercise, extreme eating and extreme “wellness” have all become forms of public performance on social media”

https://theconversation.com/from-the-liver-king-to-ultramarathons-fitness-influencers-are-glorifying-extreme-masculinity-where-pain-is-the-point-256817

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Nevena and Osman talk to Lucio Riberio, Leading AI advisor and Forbes Magazine Contributor– AI advances and what we should be excited about (or not!)

Lucio has held senior executive roles at Optus, Nine, and Seven, founder of three tech businesses, a former lecturer at RMIT and Deakin. His consultancy work includes partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Goldman Sachs, NVidia, Mondelez, and SpaceX.

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Peter Khalil, join Nevena and Osman in Peter’s regular monthly slot, as they discuss the election result and his re-lection campaign, + his priorities as Assistant Minister for Defence.

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Nevena and Osman talk to Kieran Rooney, from The Age, about the State Budget.

Kieran Rooney is a Victorian state political reporter at The Age.

Image courtesy of the The Age.

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Nevena and Osman talk to Vicki Ward, Labor Minister for Equality: latest in the Equality portfolio, Budget discussion.

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This week Nevena is in the hosting hotseat along with  Pakistani-born Australia, political and entertainment journalist, Osman Faruqi, Their first guest for the week was Aiv Puglielli, Greens MLC for North Eastern Metro, as they discussed the State Victoria Budgets handed down by the Allen government and many more topics.

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Macca and Kenny are joined live in the studio by Frances Atkinson, an avid reader, freelance writer, book reviewer (The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald) and works as a Media Adviser.  

The Language of Limbs by Australian Dylin Hardcastle

Open, Heaven by Sean Hewitt

and Queer Classic: Tales of the City by Amistead Maupin, which has been re-released to attract a new audience.

Book news: Jeanette Winterson is returning to Melbourne for a Wheeler Centre event on 24 May to talk about her work – which spans 40 years of storytelling.

Book to film: Wuthering Heights is on the way, starring Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi (Saltburn, Euphoria) as Heathcliff.

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Aftershocks: Nolan and the Holocaust is an exhibition of paintings by Australian artist Sidney Nolan presented by Melbourne Holocaust Museum. The collection includes 56 works of Nolan’s 1961 paintings of Auschwitz victims and, exhibited for the first time, his later works depicting the Ravensbrück women’s Holocaust camp.

Sidney Nolan’s engagement with the Holocaust began in 1961, following the trial of Nazi perpetrator Adolf Eichmann and a visit to Auschwitz. What followed was a deeply personal artistic response, as Nolan created a series of raw and emotional works reflecting his traumatic encounter with the atrocities of Auschwitz.

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 Joining us are the brilliant minds behind the Queer Cities exhibition at Melbourne Design Week – welcome Professors Gene Bawden and Jess Berry from Monash University!

Queer Cities is an exhibition that addresses issues of LGBTIQA+ inclusion through spatial interventions that preserve queer heritage — past, present and future. Visualising LGBTIQA+ visibility in public space is an important factor in making urban environments feel more inclusive. Recognition of the presence of queer people and their heritage in public space not only means that LGBTIQA+ people see themselves represented, making diversity visible helps public spaces become more accessible for other marginalised groups. This exhibition surfaces the voices of LGBTIQA+ and gender diverse people to recognise and celebrate queer lived experience, narratives and histories specific to public spaces and commemorate these stories through a spatial intervention.

 Professor Gene Bawden is Head of Design at Monash University, and Dr. Jess Berry is a Senior Lecturer in Design History and Theory. Together, they co-curated Queer Cities, an exhibition exploring how queer identities shape and are shaped by urban spaces, as part of Melbourne Design Week 2025

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