Saturday Magazine

Macca and Paul are joined live in the studio by Glenn Charlie Dunks, an award-winning film critic from Melbourne, Australia. He is the founder and writer behind the reDocumented website, launched in May 2025.

As they discuss the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, 2025.

For ten years, Glenn has been an active part of the Australian film scene as a critic and journalist. Getting his start with the Geelong/Surf Coast-based street press Forte Magazine, he progressed to writing regularly for Trespass and Onya Magazine as well as his personal blog.

In 2010, Glenn began writing film reviews and features for Australian print institution The Big Issue. In the following decade, he has contributed to world-renowned publications such as The Guardian, Vanity Fair and The Film Experience where he covers documentary film on a weekly basis. In Australia, his work has been published across outlets including Metro Magazine, ScreenHub, Flicks Australia, Junkee, SBS Film, SBS Sexuality, Broadsheet, Quickflix, Concrete Playground and the online edition of Overland Journal. He is also the regular film critic for Air Nuigini’s Paradise Magazine. His work has been republished by IndieWire’s Women and Hollywood blog and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance union’s quarterly print publication The Equity Magazine. He has also been spotlighted by The Age.

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Paul and Macca are joined in the studio by Prof. Paula Gerber, Monash Law, Her New Book: ‘Sex, Gender & Identity: Trans Rights in Australia

Paula, a Professor in the Monash Law Faculty and an internationally renowned scholar with expertise in international human rights law generally, with a particular focus on children’s rights and LGBTI rights. She developed the website antigaylaws.org to provide reliable and accurate information about the laws used to persecute LGBTI individuals around the world. As Founding Director of the Kaleidoscope Australia Human Rights Foundation, she is committed to fighting for equality and dignity for LGBTI persons in countries on our doorstep. There are still 20 Asia-Pacific countries where it is a crime to be gay, and Kaleidoscope works with local activists to change this.

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Paul and Macca talk to Peter Khalil, – MP for Wills & Asst Min. for Defence; State and Federal Politics Update; Australia-Indonesia Security Treaty, they also discussed “Adult time for adult crime’ announcement from the Vic state government,

The Hon. Peter Khalil MP is the Assistant Minister for Defence and the Federal Member for Wills.

Peter was first elected to the House of Representatives for Wills, Victoria in 2016.

Previously, Peter was the Special Envoy for Social Cohesion from July 2024 to May 2025, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security from September 2022 to October 2024, and has held numerous committee positions.

Peter is a second generation Australian. His parents migrated from Egypt to Melbourne for a better life. He grew up in public housing and played AFL and tennis semi-professionally after leaving school. Peter went on to study a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law at the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws at Australian National University.

Prior to entering Parliament Peter was the Executive Director of Corporate Affairs, Strategy and Communications at SBS and a Victorian Multicultural Commissioner. He also has served as a foreign policy and national security adviser to former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. He has also worked as a public servant at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Department of Defence.

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Paul and Macca talk to Sean Hall, founder of Energx; Expert on Mental Health in the Workplace; Dealing with Uncertainty.

Sean Hall is the founder of Energx and a mental health expert who focuses on workplace and energy and anti-burnout strategies.   After experiencing burnout twice, he developed a system called “Energy Intelligence” (ExIQ) to help individuals and companies build resilience. Hall uses principles from neuroscience, psychology, and other fields to create practical, science-backed programs to improve employee well-being, creativity, and performance. 

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Paul and Macca talk to Kent Burgess, the current interim CEO of Thorne Harbour Health.

Kent,  an experienced and values driven community leader, with a broad ranging background in the health sector with special interest across alcohol and other drug services, community, mental health, primary care and LGBTIQA+ health. Kent is a former CEO of Your Community Health and Windana, is committed to community partnership, quality and equity in healthcare. Kent’s experience in health and social services, is highlighted by his Masters of Public Health, GAiCD and a clinical background as an occupational therapist in mental health and dual diagnosis, underpinning his leadership. Kent was a Harvard Club of Victoria Not-for-Profit Fellow in 2023.

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Misha Ketchell joins Macca and Paul in the studio as they discuss International News, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The death of controversial and lionized Talkback King John Laws and the death of Federal ALP Powerbroker, Cabinet minister and controversial commentator Graham Ricardson.

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Macca and Kenny are joined live in the studio by  Kathleen Maltzahn- the CEO of Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic), the Victorian peak body for sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviour services. She has worked on gender-based violence for many years.

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Jetten, 38, was born in the Dutch town of Veghel in the country’s south. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in public administration at the Netherlands’ Radboud University. He first became interested in politics after a “Turkish primary school was set on fire in my hometown,” Jetten said in his profile for the Dutch House of Representatives.

The culprits “ended up being teammates from my football team,” and the “rest of the world cast my village as a hotbed for far-right youths,” Jetten’s profile said. To counter this characterization, Jetten “teamed up with a few peers to prove everyone wrong, organizing various campaigns and speaking before the municipal council.” Jetten “worked as a manager at the ProRail national track network before going into politics,” said The Guardian. He was first elected to the House in 2017 and has held several government positions, including minister for climate and energy policy and first deputy prime minister.

https://theweek.com/world-news/rob-jetten-netherlands-prime-minister

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Varun completed his medical degree from the University of Melbourne in 2014 and worked as a junior doctor at Monash Health in internal medicine before transitioning to General Practice.

Since completing General Practice training in 2020 he has also commenced further training in HIV medicine, and Sexual Health for all individuals.

Clinical interests include: General preventive medicine, Chronic disease management, Sexual Health, and Mental health.

Varun talks to Macca and Kenny about New medication for prep that is a 6-monthly injection,  and how the bulk-billing issue is playing out.

Richard Keane is CEO of Living Positive Victoria, a community-based organization representing people living with HIV. He has worked in health promotion and community development for decades and is a leader in challenging stigma, advocating for health equity, and empowering people living with HIV through lived experience.

Richard joined Macca, Kenny and Varun live in the studio as they discuss world AIDS day + multicultural engagement strategy being launched on Monday 24 Nov.

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Macca and Kenny are joined live in the studio by  Kathleen Maltzahn- the CEO of Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic), the Victorian peak body for sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviour services. She was worked on gender-based violence for many years.

Victorian survivors of sexual violence have been invited to contribute their ideas on preventing and dealing with the crime, with one idea to be selected for promotion in the lead-up to the next state election.

The process to be used is deliberative decision-making, which usually involves citizen juries that make recommendations arrived at by agreement. It has been used across many policy areas and across the globe, but this online initiative, launched by Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic) and the NewDemocracy Foundation, has extra impact, given the experience of trauma of those being invited to take part.

Sexual violence survivors are being invited to anonymously visit the YourSay website to submit ideas on how to prevent, respond to or end sexual violence. The public will then be invited to discuss, support or suggest variations on these ideas.

The long list will then be taken to a “citizen’s panel” made up of 12 or 13 people randomly chosen from those who made submissions. Panel members will deliberate for three sessions to choose one idea to present to SASVic for advocacy.

SASVic has committed to promoting that chosen idea in the lead-up to the state election, no matter what the idea is.

“Victim-survivor perspectives are key to effective action on sexual violence,” said SASVic CEO Kathleen Maltzahn. “Sexual violence takes away power and control. SASVic wants victim-survivors to influence the systems and policies that affect them. YourSay is one way to ensure that their voices are heard, respected and acted upon.”

Speaking to the Community Advocate, Maltzahn said her organisation had worked with many survivors who wanted to be involved in finding solutions to sexual violence but it had never had a suitable platform.

“I think we often talk about lived experience as if it’s a group of people who are perhaps a minority, but we know that with sexual violence, it is so pervasive with at least a third of the community, and probably most women, affected, when you think about things like sexual harassment and the way sexual violence generally impacts women’s lives,” she said.

More information

https://yoursay.sasvic.org.au/

About Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic)

SASVic is the peak body for specialist sexual violence and harmful sexual behaviour services in Victoria. It works to promote the rights and recovery of victim survivors and to prevent sexual violence through advocacy, education and system reform.

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