https://www.betterbillionairesaustralia.com/faqs daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f486315f64176e43279b00/d8e37ec9-6eb5-4ff8-93c8-6e973e6c7bcf/Uni+Logo+med.png FAQs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f486315f64176e43279b00/23be9ed3-9e44-4c19-b22b-544469d87c85/Billionaires+for+Bush.jpg FAQs - Make it stand out Billionaires For Bush is the original project that the research drew upon to examine comedy that critiques, using satire and lived experience, issues of Australian social injustice and wealth inequality. Comment from Professor Robert Phiddian: “The work wears its progressive cultural politics candidly. This is research into single-voiced (generally stand-up) performers with women, gender-diverse, minority, and differently-abled [disabled] comedians in the foreground. It focuses not on audiences (as so much work in recent decades has done), but on performers, their agency and expression. How do comedians achieve career progression and valid expression in a cultural world shaped by neoliberal public policy and its consequence in culture of creative industries? In a world that forces you to be a creative hustler, how can you squeeze in satirical art worth expressing? Their relatively open approach to territory fought over in the endless culture wars is, in fact, refreshing. The candidate is clear about where they stand, but then resists the temptation to testify readers into submission or shout at opponents. In particular, the balanced conclusion proposing a bit more support for comedian development through festivals is well-argued and feasible as policy even within the narrow confines of current funding expectations. This looks to me like pragmatic idealism.” Comment from Professor Dominic Boyer: "Brady’s blend of cultural analysis and political mission is perfectly consonant with the Action Research (AR) paradigm of human scientific engagement that has inspired their work. The thesis is based on 16 months of fieldwork and a substantial body of original ethnographic research among Australian comedians. In addition to standard anthropological research techniques like participant-observation Brady developed innovative techniques like satirical experiments and autoethnographic approaches to develop a rich empirical basis for analysis." https://www.betterbillionairesaustralia.com/about daily 1.0 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f486315f64176e43279b00/b9e27241-7826-4e13-8698-479452e4217f/Political+comedy+Facebook+groups.png About - Make it stand out Image description: A light bulb with a cartoon jesters hat, the University of Melbourne logo and the words “Call for participants! PhD Research: The Politics of Laughter”.