Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die

CELEBRATING JACK COLWELL

Sydney-based singer songwriter Jack Colwell was an accomplished artist and musician who worked extensively within the music industry. He released one studio album, Swan Dream, in 2020 - five years after his single, Don’t Cry Those Tears, was produced by Sarah Blasko and lauded as one of the best Australian releases of the year. Jack died at the age of 34 in 2024 after struggling for a long time with his mental health.

Celebrating Jack’s far too short life is his dear friend Sam Twyford-Moore who was with him for much of that time. Sam is a writer who has contributed to a wide range of publications, including the Monthly, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Sam’s also the author of The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania and Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home.

TW: Suicide, mental health.

VIRGINIA TRIOLI IS GOING TO DIE

Virginia Trioli is presenter of Creative Types on ABC TV and a former co-host of ABC News Breakfast and host of Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne. A two-time Walkley Award winner, she spent nine years as a news reporter, features writer, and columnist in Melbourne. Her new book A Bit on the Side: Reflections on What Makes Life Delicious is a gorgeous interrogation of food and memory, but Virginia's not afraid to tackle weightier matters of death and grief. And she's put a lot of thought into what her Dream Funeral may look like....

BRUCE PASCOE IS GOING TO DIE

Bruce Pascoe is a writer and farmer with extensive knowledge of the Australian landscape that reframes the colonised whitewashing of centuries of First Nations innovation. He has published 36 books including Dark Emu, which won the NSW Premier’s Award for Literature in 2016. Bruce is a deep thinker and so articulate about what it is to bear witness to the cycles of life and death in the natural world, and what he feels about his own legacy…and how much there’s still left to achieve.

MEHREEN FARUQI IS GOING TO DIE

Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Senator for NSW. She is also a civil/environmental engineer with 20 years experience in sustainability and environmental management, and before her time in Parliament worked in local government, consulting and higher educations institutions. As the first Muslim woman in any Australian parliament, Mehreen has been a political outsider fighting for her right and the rights of others like her to be let inside on their terms whilst surviving racial discrimination, violence, and death threats. So how does this formidable woman feel about being a public face for activism and grief? And how does she self-care amidst the turbulence of the political system?

PLEASE NOTE: This was recorded in February - and global politics moves fast.

JON RONSON IS GOING TO DIE

Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker, known for works such as Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and The Psychopath Test. He's also possessed of an insatiable curiosity and devilish intellect - so what plans has this provocateur made for his own Funeral, and how much thought has he given to who will deliver his eulogy?

Jon’s two TED talks have been watched more than 30 million times. In the US he is a contributor to This American Life, the New York Times magazine and GQ magazine, and has appeared many times as a guest on shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The New Yorker Radio Hour.

In the UK Jon has written regularly for The Guardian, as a columnist and feature writer.