David M. Green: Purveyor of fine humour

Category: politics

  • DO SOMETHING to save Australian Community TV!

    This week June 1 to 5, community television in Australia is having a week of action to call attention to the fact they’re still facing the axe at the end of the year when the Federal Government turns off their TV transmission.

    I wrote an article about all this for The Age last year. Aside from my middle initial mysteriously disappearing from The Age website, nothing much has changed since then – not least my firm belief that community television is an important part of the Australian media landscape and deserves to exist.

    Do you agree? Yes? Okay. So what can you do?

    Go to the Commit to Community TV website: http://i.committocommunitytv.org.au/

    Sign the petition. Like the Facebook page. Send a Tweet. Write to your local MP and/or Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Tell someone you think community TV and the thousands of hours of content created every year by thousands of volunteers is important and they should have more time to make the transition to an online distribution business model.

    Do it this week.

    DO SOMETHING.

    – David M. Green

  • Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell Series 4

    Yo! I’m back fulfilling the dream on the writing team for the 4th series of Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell! So if you haven’t already been enjoying some damn fine Australian news-based television comedy, make sure you tune in at one or all of these times:

    • Wednesdays 8pm on ABC
    • Fridays 11:05pm on ABC
    • Thursdays 9pm on ABC2

    Or there’s ABC iView and a selection of clips on the Mad As Hell YouTube Channel, like this one (one of my favourites from this season):

    I’ve also been an extra in a few things this season, so keep an eye out 😀

    Kind regards
    David M. Green
    Happy as Hell

  • Hooray for student media

    In response to new Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s comments last week RE: again abolishing compulsory student services fees at Australian universities, I wrote an opinion piece for ABC’s The Drum website about my own experience last time it happened and the impact it had on student media.

    Read my thing here: Student media needs student fees to survive.

    The good people at Radio Adelaide – where my media career began – saw the article and invited me onto their breakfast show on Monday to have a chat with Radio’s Angus Randall. It was slightly too early in the morning for me, but you can listen to the audio here.

    Always too happy to give back to Radio Adelaide, the station that gave me everything. Including an award, which they have since misplaced.

    If anyone sees the 2007 South Australian Community Broadcasting Association “Bilby” Award for Best Station ID 2007 anywhere, would you let me know?

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    And good to hear The Empire Times is back up and running.

  • Ladies and gentlemen… The Hon. Tony Windsor, MP…

    Click the image to hear my “interview” with independent MP Tony Windsor two days after he put Julia Gillard into power, and one day after admitting he doesn’t know how to use a computer.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    I am loving this impression!

  • Julia Gillard soundboard prank calls!

    Hello!

    With only two days until the federal election, I thought I’d give Prime Minister Julia Gillard a helping hand by impersonating her electronically and calling some “Working Australians”…

    Julia Gillard prank calls a hairdresser

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cTMjIbaWQ

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    Julia Gillard prank calls Telstra

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    And here’s the entire prank call segment from this morning’s Get Cereal breakfast show on Melbourne’s SYN 90.7FM:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um0mtByVHOU

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    Here’s just the audio:

    Julia Gillard Soundboard Prank Calls!

    It’s been quite a busy couple of weeks getting this stunt off the ground. Thanks to producer Tim Cuthell for begging me to do some more prank calls and getting the ball rolling. Thank you to the team at SYN for supporting my idea and getting the tech guy to come in last week to alter the control panel in the production studio that allowed me to actually make these calls. And thanks to Charles and Luke from Get Cereal. It was a real pleasure this morning. The most fun I’ve had on radio in quite some time.

    My guest appearance is now a regular thing. Tune in every Thursday 8:30am to hear me goofing around and paying my dues with David M. Green’s Community Service! Or go here to listen to past material.

    Kind regards,
    David M. Green
    Julia Gillard: The Bas Rutten of Australian politics.