The Sentinel Speakeasy

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  Event Horizon : EP 1 : AI Isn’t Coming - It’s Already Controlling Your Daily Life 02.12.2025 11min

  Welcome to Event Horizon, the podcast that cuts through the hype and fear to bring you clear, practical understanding of artificial intelligence. I’m Travis de Jonk — digital strategist, ethicist, broadcast journalist, transformation expert and long-time futurist. After 20+ years inside newsrooms, entertainment networks and public health systems, I’ve created this series to raise digital literacy and give you the truth about AI: what it is, how it works, and why it affects every part of you...
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  Season 3, episode 14: Michael Williams - Artistic Director, Sydney Writers' Festival 17.05.2022 42min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explore's the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is Michael Williams - the artistic director of the Sydney Writers' Festival. We first spoke with Williams on the speakeasy last year in 2021 when he navigated Sydney Writers' Festival through the pandemic landscape to produce a brilliant 2021 festival. LISTEN to that interview here. The Sydney Writers' Festival returns this year from 16 to 22 May 2022 - big...
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  Season 3, episode 13: Eric Nash & John Jarratt (Love You Like That) 10.05.2022 45min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explore's the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUESTS ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK are writer, director and producer Eric Nash and iconic actor, producer and director John Jarratt. That’s right: Wolf Creek’s Mick Taylor is joining us on the show today. These two stellar talents teamed up in the production of the recent 2022 film release Love You Like That which is available to watch on Foxtel and Binge from 10 May, 2022. Nash and Ja...
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  Season 3, episode 12: Will Tregoning - Unharm.org 02.05.2022 40min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explore's the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is Will Tregoning - the founder of Unharm - an organisation spearheading drug law and policy reform in NSW and Australia. We last spoke to Will about a year ago - he returns to update us on movements in the organisation, as well as recent polling by Unharm revealing dramatic transformations in public attitudes about drugs, policing and policy. Of parti...
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  Season 3, episode 11: Tim Duggan - Author of "Cult Status" and "Killer Thinking" 26.04.2022 43min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is Tim Duggan - an extraordinary and adventurous Australian who isn’t just a business powerhouse but an expert in the art of social activation and change. He is an optimist who firmly believes in the power of business to do good - and leads by example, running some of this nation’s most prominent and awarded media outlets and events. His first book, Cult...
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  Season 3, episode 10: Ben Moir/ Vanity Faire (Wigs By Vanity) 19.04.2022 40min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is a Sydney business success story. When Wigs by Vanity was started in 2003 by Ben Moir (AKA Vanity Faire) - in partnership with fellow drag artist Courtney Act - it redefined drag wigs in Australia and delivered a unique concept of wigs made by drag queens for drag queens. It has since grown into a high profile and internationally recognised Australian ...
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  Season 3, episode 9: Drag superstars Art Simone & Etcetera Etcetera 12.04.2022 42min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUESTS ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK are two of the most famous drag talents in Australia - Art Simone and Etcetera Etcetera - and following their participation in hit reality TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, their names are now known globally. The dynamic duo have teamed up for their own show - As Seen On TV . But that’s not all - they're doing the show in tandem with their own ‘one...
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  Season 3, episode 8: Marcia Hines 05.04.2022 33min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is Aussie icon, Marcia Hines. With a career spanning five decades, an Order of Australia (AM) and an entry in the ARIA Hall of Fame, Marcia Hines is a juggernaut of music, theatre and entertainment, and a national treasure. Now, she is about to release new music and embark on a tour. Hines has returned to the recording studio and added three new songs to the u...
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  Season 3, episode 7: The Eagle Bar Sydney & The Hide 29.03.2022 54min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. This week we are examining Sydney's fetish and kink scenes - subcultures as diverse and fascinating as the people who partake in them. Sydney’s fetish and kink scene in the '80s and '90s was a thriving subculture - but it has experienced something of a decline in recent years. However, a swag of new initiatives are reviving interest in the scene. In this episode, we speak to two groups that ...
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  Season 3, episode 6: John Baker (publisher, William & John, 1972-73) 22.03.2022 33min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is John Baker - a pioneering trailblazer of gay publishing in Australia. Baker launched his gay lifestyle magazine William & John back in 1972 - just a few years after the Stonewall riots in the US and six years before the first ever Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras protests. Recognised as the first ever commercial lifestyle gay publication in Austr...
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  Season 3, episode 5: Tina Cousins 09.03.2022 29min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Travis de Jonk explores the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is UK singer and dance music star Tina Cousins. Her timeless tracks back in the late '90s and noughties such as 'Forever', 'Killing Time', 'Pray' and 'Wonderful Life' made her a dancefloor star across the decades, especially in Australia where the singer enjoys her second biggest fan base. It’s been over a decade since Tina Cousins was last in Australia - now ...
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  Season 3, episode 4: Dr Chris Wallace - How To Win An Election 02.03.2022 41min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Richie Black and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is Dr Chris Wallace - Associate Professor at the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra. She has worked for a number of Australian media publications including The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, the ABC and Channel 7, Wallace has also written several books including the official biographies of some of our nation’s ...
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  Season 3, episode 3: Mark Trevorrow, Bernie Dieter, Dean Arcuri & Dolly Diamond 22.02.2022 36min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Sunny Grace and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. SPECIAL GUESTSON THIS WEEK'S SHOW: Mark Trevorrow, who talks with Travis de Jonk about his show Viva, Bob Vegas! which not only returns to Sydney for Mardi Gras but is also touring nationally. MORE INFO & BOOKINGS: https://www.bobdowne.com Germany's Bernie Dieter joins Sunny Grace to talk about her extraordinary and racy cabaret for the Sydney Fringe show, Club Kabarett...
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  Season 3, episode 2: Albert Kruger (CEO, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras) 16.02.2022 34min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Peter Hackney and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras CEO, Albert Kruger. Kruger spoke with us about what it has been like running Australia’s biggest LGBTQI festival through one of the most challenging periods not just for the organisation but for our nation. He talked about challenges, joys and what he is looking forward to in this year’s festival, wh...
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  Season 3, episode 1: Glace Chase 08.02.2022 39min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Peter Hackney and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is trans comedian, performer, MC, club host, playwright and more, Glace Chase. With over a decade of creating award winning and critically acclaimed work - she's brought heart to the fresh, edgy, authentic and original perspectives through her work. Her most recent work, Triple X, tackles societal norms, gender politics and toxic masc...
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  Season 2, Episode 14: Special guest Brendan Maclean 30.11.2021 35min

  Sentinel Speakeasy host Travis de Jonk brings you the season finale of season two and our last podcast episode for 2021 - and what a fabulous way to end the year. OUR SPECIAL GUEST ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK is singer, songwriter and actor Brendan Maclean, most famous for his fantastic electro-pop music including singles like Stupid, Tectonic, House of Air and Sensational amongst many others. He also featured in the role of Klipspringer in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, and s...
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  Season 2, Episode 13: Special guest Tim Chappel 02.11.2021 28min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Peter Hackney and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. SPECIAL GUEST THIS EPISODE is a juggernaut of the Australian arts and entertainment industry, costume designer Tim Chappel. The fantastic costumes he designed for the iconic Australian film, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert won him an Academy Award for Costume Design in 1995, as well as a BAFTA Award and an AFI Award. He continued designing for the Priscilla s...
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  Season 2, Episode 12: Special guest Tony Ayres 26.10.2021 33min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Peter Hackney and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. SPECIAL GUEST THIS EPISODE is Tony Ayres - one of our nations most prolific and highly awarded writers, directors and producers. You’ll definitely have seen one of the many productions he has created over the past two decades including Walking On Water, the Slap, Nowhere Boys, The Family Law and Glitch. Most recently Ayres was commissioned to create the drama series Clickbait for N...
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  Season 2, Episode 11: Special guest Dami Im 19.10.2021 32min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Peter Hackney and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. SPECIAL GUEST THIS EPISODE is the one and only Dami Im - Beloved Australian pop star, winner of X-Factor Australia 2013 and Australia's Eurovison representative 2016 amongst many more accolades. Dami's fifth studio album 'My Reality' is released on 29 October 2021 through ABC Music. Singles from the forthcoming album 'Pray', 'Lonely Cactus', 'Paper Dragon' and 'Kiss You Anyway' are...
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  Season 2, Episode 10: Sydney Sentinel 1st birthday special 21.09.2021 47min

  The Sydney Sentinel's Peter Hackney and Travis de Jonk explore the week's top stories on sydneysentinel.com.au. THIS SPECIAL EPISODE celebrates the first birthday of the Sydney Sentinel in September 2021 with an interview with founder and editor-in-chief Peter Hackney as well as speaking with some of the section editors that have contributed to the Sentinel over the past 12 months. LISTEN to all our previous Sentinel Speakeasy episodes, 24/7 here: https://thesentinelspeakeasy.buzzsprout.co...