Andrew Denton is a media personality, writer and producer based in Sydney. His first podcast, Better Off Dead, was produced in partnership with the Wheeler Centre in 2015-16. In great depth, it explored the question of why Australians die with no option of euthanasia – and the veracity of the risks often cited with such a law. The podcast led Andrew to co-found the advocacy organisation Go Gentle Australia.
Andrew’s television career takes in his groundbreaking early work on the ABC – Blah Blah Blah, The Money or The Gun, Live & Sweaty – through to his unforgettable reworking of television’s ‘night of nights’ the Logies; his role as Executive Producer of Election Chaser and CNNNN; his work hosting and producing the hugely successful Enough Rope and as the executive producer of The Gruen Transfer, Gruen Nation, Hungry Beast, 30 Seconds, AFP, Can of Worms, Randling and Joy of Sets.