Alan Weedon

Features

Three BFFs Making Doof You Can Cry To: Introducing Huntly

Listen to our exclusive stream of the debut EP, and check out our photos from the trio's band practice.
Alan Weedon
5.19.16
Vice Blog

Meet Australia's Most Notorious Piss Fetishist, Troughman

Some gay clubs have a bathtub for partygoers to piss all over volunteers dubbed "trough boys." In Australian queer culture, our most celebrated trough boy is Leethal Elliot.
Alan Weedon
5.9.16
Features

The Con Artist: Talking Classical and Dub with Asdasfr Bawd

“I’m always taking music apart into its building blocks and rearranging them.”
Alan Weedon
4.11.16
News

We Asked Safe Schools Supporters to Describe Growing Up Before Safe Schools Was a Thing

"For a really long time I felt I was broken, that I was wrong, that I wasn't even being a lesbian 'properly.' In turns out that being genderqueer is a thing, but knowing that early would've been a great help."
Alan Weedon
3.22.16
Features

Being 16 Again With Nearly Oratorio, aka Simon Lam

“I really miss those first moments where you write music when you’re really naïve—it’s the closest I’ll ever have to a journal.”
Alan Weedon
3.18.16
Stuff

The SMITE Oceania Gaming Tournament Was an Intense Glimpse at the Future

I used the weekend to mingle with the adolescent heroes of Australian eSport.
Alan Weedon
11.5.15
Stuff

We Asked an Expert if Uber in Canberra Will Save Australian Taxpayers Money?

"You've got to keep in mind that public servants are not price-sensitive—they're not paying the bill."
Alan Weedon
10.7.15
Stuff

Australian Universities Still Aren’t Safe From Deregulation

The new Minister for Education isn't giving up on Christopher Pyne's plans to let unis charge what they want.
Alan Weedon
9.24.15
The VICE Guide to Right Now

The Australian Cabinet’s New Groove

The Prime Minister has redesigned the federal cabinet, bringing in more women, science, and Australia's first female Minister of Defence.
Alan Weedon
9.21.15
Stuff

This Was Not a Good Week to Be Working on a Tony Abbott Musical

How do you write a musical about a man who writes his own punchlines, and then writes himself out of the story?
Alan Weedon
9.17.15
The VICE Guide to Right Now

Malcolm Turnbull Will Challenge Tony Abbott for the Prime Ministership

​For the second time this year, members of the Australian government have asked Prime Minister Tony Abbott to step aside.
Alan Weedon
9.14.15
The VICE Guide to Right Now

Australia Sort of Responded to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

The Australian government will now take 12,000 additional refugees from Syria. But is it enough?
Alan Weedon
9.9.15
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