Good Weekend Talks podcast: the best of 2020
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Good Weekend Talks podcast: the best of 2020
December 17, 2020
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has skated through scandals before, but the quarantine bungle is of an entirely different order.
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The rise and stall of Premier Daniel Andrews Melissa Fyfe s July 2020 cover story profiles Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, whom Melissa first interviewed in May, when he was surfing a wave of popularity – before COVID-19 turned the tide
. Hear the story in this podcast, after which, Melissa is joined in conversation by
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Six years ago, Abanob Saad sat in a clinic in Melbourneâs north-west where a religious psychiatrist advised him to watch heterosexual pornography in a bid to âcureâ his same-sex attraction.
Mr Saad was 24, the eldest son of conservative Egyptian parents, and a devout Coptic Orthodox Christian. He thought the pornography was âstupid and immoralâ.
Abanob Saad: We need to end this myth that gay people donât exist in non-Anglo societies.
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âI was at loggerheads because I had a very strong relationship with God, but throughout my schooling I was told, day in and day out, that my impurity and my sinfulness as a homosexual was so repulsive to God,â he told