For this Christmas Special we're offering the 12 assessments of Christmas on the places, spaces, cultural trends, politics and people who have managed to crawl to the end of 2025. And possibly some that didn't. It's our NDIS assessment themed yuletide trip back through a year most of you would probably rather forget. (Please note this episode was recorded prior to the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach).

Mentioned in this episode:

TV

Russel T Davies - It's a Sin

1923

House of Guiness

The Pitt

Podcasts

QAA - QAnon Anonymous

The Rest is Politics

Horror Movies

Nosferatu

28 Years Later

Weapons

Frankenstein

Books

Mean Streak by Rick Morton

Dead Centre by Richard Denniss.

The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling

Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

The Word by Irving Wallace

Elmer Bendiners: A Time for Angels

The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis

The Extinction of Experience: Reclaiming our Humanity in a digital world by Christine Rosen

Stars, influencers, leaders and activists

David Pocock

Jordan Steel John

Stephen Mayne

Kelly @broadwaybabyto

Renee Heaton

Sarah Langston

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Crutches and Spice

This month we are looking at whether it's possible to turn back the tide of rising hate speech and disinformation about disability and other people in the community. Why is this an issue? What would it take to get this on the agenda? How and why is the ACT's I-Day program putting a spotlight on this? Our guests are Dr Ashlegih Haw and Ravi Krishnamurthy.

This episode, we're looking at advocacy, where rubber hits the road. Our guests are Sarah Langston and Dwayne Cranfield and we'll be talking with them about activism and advocacy in all its forms, from public protest to organisational lobbying. Why it's important, what works, what's changed over the history of the disability movement and who's doing it.