Warwick Holt
@wokholt.bsky.social
Screenwriter / etcwriter. Once wrote 60,000 or so jokes for TV shows. Chaos mathematician by training. Cricket tragic. Wurundjeri land. He/him. https://media-empire.net
Just hit 50,000 words in my book, well ahead of the end of #NaNoWriMo!
...It still counts if you started two years ago, yeah?
#WriteSky
...It still counts if you started two years ago, yeah?
#WriteSky
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Just hit 50,000 words in my book, well ahead of the end of #NaNoWriMo!
...It still counts if you started two years ago, yeah?
#WriteSky
...It still counts if you started two years ago, yeah?
#WriteSky
It's the 10th anniversary edition of Melbourne WebFest this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing loads of great web series and I'm extra-chuffed that Bruce has been selected as one of the highlights of the decade for Sunday's Legacy Screenings. Tickets and full program at melbournewebfest.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's the 10th anniversary edition of Melbourne WebFest this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing loads of great web series and I'm extra-chuffed that Bruce has been selected as one of the highlights of the decade for Sunday's Legacy Screenings. Tickets and full program at melbournewebfest.com
The difference between training an #AI model on original IP and the end use of that model is equivalent to the difference between mining ore and driving a car.
Pleased to see the Productivity Commission have now published my response to their deeply-flawed Interim Report.
Pleased to see the Productivity Commission have now published my response to their deeply-flawed Interim Report.
A Productivity Commission Submission on AI in Australia - Warwick Holt - Media Empire
A response regarding AI regulation and protecting culture to the Australian Government's Productivity Commission's Interim Report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technology
media-empire.net
October 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The difference between training an #AI model on original IP and the end use of that model is equivalent to the difference between mining ore and driving a car.
Pleased to see the Productivity Commission have now published my response to their deeply-flawed Interim Report.
Pleased to see the Productivity Commission have now published my response to their deeply-flawed Interim Report.
Today's #Connections really going hard on seminal power pop
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Today's #Connections really going hard on seminal power pop
Worth watching Senators Hanson-Young, Henderson and Pocock call the Productivity Commission out on the BS underpinning their Interim Report on AI and Data, based on estimates of productivity impacts for AI when they don't even know the productivity of the creative industry (2.5% of GDP). #auspol
Senate Environment and Communications References Committee | 30/09/2025
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
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October 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Worth watching Senators Hanson-Young, Henderson and Pocock call the Productivity Commission out on the BS underpinning their Interim Report on AI and Data, based on estimates of productivity impacts for AI when they don't even know the productivity of the creative industry (2.5% of GDP). #auspol
My response to the Productivity Commission's Interim Report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technologies, focussing on AI regulation, productivity impacts and protecting and enriching Australia's cultural and creative landscape.
A Productivity Commission Submission on AI in Australia - Warwick Holt - Media Empire
A response regarding AI regulation and protecting culture to the Australian Government's Productivity Commission's Interim Report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technology
media-empire.net
September 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
My response to the Productivity Commission's Interim Report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technologies, focussing on AI regulation, productivity impacts and protecting and enriching Australia's cultural and creative landscape.
We've got til Monday 5pm to submit to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into AI & Data. Their Interim Report recommended allowing #AI companies free rein to steal IP and exploit it. Thanks @drwaus.bsky.social for this submission template: digitalrightswatch.org.au/tools-guides...
Submission generator for the Productivity Commission's inquiry into AI and Data
digitalrightswatch.org.au
September 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
We've got til Monday 5pm to submit to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into AI & Data. Their Interim Report recommended allowing #AI companies free rein to steal IP and exploit it. Thanks @drwaus.bsky.social for this submission template: digitalrightswatch.org.au/tools-guides...
I had such a fun weekend seeing two terrific contemporary Aussie comedies, Birthright and One More Shot, as a #MIFF double feature - then the next night celebrating my earliest Antipodean comedy hero with But Also John Clarke. Full cinemas cracking up, great stuff.
August 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I had such a fun weekend seeing two terrific contemporary Aussie comedies, Birthright and One More Shot, as a #MIFF double feature - then the next night celebrating my earliest Antipodean comedy hero with But Also John Clarke. Full cinemas cracking up, great stuff.
Wow, America is now selling entire cities in Australian supermarkets
August 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wow, America is now selling entire cities in Australian supermarkets
Just finished Until the Red Leaves Fall by the brilliant @alliparkerwriter.bsky.social, a moving story about storytelling, authenticity, secrets, of Australia's hideous WWII internment camps wrapped in a ripping yarn of the 1950s theatre scene. Bravo! #booksky #AussieAuthor
August 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Just finished Until the Red Leaves Fall by the brilliant @alliparkerwriter.bsky.social, a moving story about storytelling, authenticity, secrets, of Australia's hideous WWII internment camps wrapped in a ripping yarn of the 1950s theatre scene. Bravo! #booksky #AussieAuthor
I certainly don't begrudge Scar for spoiling my run #Hottest100
2 for 2 so far, also locking in Never Tear Us Apart #Hottest100
It feels like the top 10 in the #Hottest100 gonna include:
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
July 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I certainly don't begrudge Scar for spoiling my run #Hottest100
2 for 2 so far, also locking in Never Tear Us Apart #Hottest100
It feels like the top 10 in the #Hottest100 gonna include:
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
July 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
2 for 2 so far, also locking in Never Tear Us Apart #Hottest100
It feels like the top 10 in the #Hottest100 gonna include:
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It feels like the top 10 in the #Hottest100 gonna include:
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
Long Way To The Top
Flame Trees
Khe Sahn
Somebody That I Used To Know
Don't Dream It's Over
My Happiness
How To Make Gravy
Buy Me A Pony
The Worst Person Alive
and one other...
Kinda hoped The Angels were #1 in the #Hottest100 just because the key lyric was contributed by some rando in the crowd
July 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Kinda hoped The Angels were #1 in the #Hottest100 just because the key lyric was contributed by some rando in the crowd
When I said "drain the swamp" I was referring to Swamp B
July 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
When I said "drain the swamp" I was referring to Swamp B
Went to shoot a toast to The Project in my favourite cup. Knocked it over and broke the handle off. In tribute, I guess.
June 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Went to shoot a toast to The Project in my favourite cup. Knocked it over and broke the handle off. In tribute, I guess.
I just knew they wouldn't leave us hanging at World War II
June 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I just knew they wouldn't leave us hanging at World War II
Sad to hear my friends and former colleagues who found out this week that they lost their jobs with the cancellation of The Project. I was there for just over half of its 16 year lifespan, and worked with so many lovely folks with a huge range of skills and talents. Here's what it was like.
The Project's Difference Engine - Warwick Holt - Media Empire
As the curtain closes on 16 years of The Project, I look back on my own 8 years of delivering news differently.
media-empire.net
June 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sad to hear my friends and former colleagues who found out this week that they lost their jobs with the cancellation of The Project. I was there for just over half of its 16 year lifespan, and worked with so many lovely folks with a huge range of skills and talents. Here's what it was like.
Wild to be in @nightwatchman.bsky.social two weeks in a row... this time by name. Thanks Glenn, hopefully you will quote this blurt in next week's edition and we can continue this dance in perpetuity.
Often the NW’s big surprises come from its readers.
This week a friend may have solved the mystery behind the weirdest job ad prerequisite I've seen.
And last week, another friend @wokholt.bsky.social was reunited with a joke he wrote 35 years ago.
glennpeters.substack.com/p/digging-de...
This week a friend may have solved the mystery behind the weirdest job ad prerequisite I've seen.
And last week, another friend @wokholt.bsky.social was reunited with a joke he wrote 35 years ago.
glennpeters.substack.com/p/digging-de...
Digging deep again.
Last week we saw my diary, now let's look at some school work.
glennpeters.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Wild to be in @nightwatchman.bsky.social two weeks in a row... this time by name. Thanks Glenn, hopefully you will quote this blurt in next week's edition and we can continue this dance in perpetuity.
I'm rapt to have been chosen as one of the creative folks to launch Milestones Page, a site that allows creatives to bring together everything they've done into one schmick-looking web page. Almost like an entire Media Empire...
media-empire.net/my-milestones/
media-empire.net/my-milestones/
My Milestones - Warwick Holt - Media Empire
My entire creative career, right back to my long-forgotten teenage years, is now available on a new site called Milestones Page.
media-empire.net
June 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I'm rapt to have been chosen as one of the creative folks to launch Milestones Page, a site that allows creatives to bring together everything they've done into one schmick-looking web page. Almost like an entire Media Empire...
media-empire.net/my-milestones/
media-empire.net/my-milestones/
March 29: "Does anyone believe that Anthony Albanese can form a majority government after the election?"
May 3: ALP thumping majority, Dutton loses seat.
May 20: Coalition splits, Liberals left with less than 20% of seats.
If a week is a long time in #auspol, eight is a geologic eon.
May 3: ALP thumping majority, Dutton loses seat.
May 20: Coalition splits, Liberals left with less than 20% of seats.
If a week is a long time in #auspol, eight is a geologic eon.
Peter Dutton asks reporters whether Labor would be able to form a majority government
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
www.abc.net.au
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
March 29: "Does anyone believe that Anthony Albanese can form a majority government after the election?"
May 3: ALP thumping majority, Dutton loses seat.
May 20: Coalition splits, Liberals left with less than 20% of seats.
If a week is a long time in #auspol, eight is a geologic eon.
May 3: ALP thumping majority, Dutton loses seat.
May 20: Coalition splits, Liberals left with less than 20% of seats.
If a week is a long time in #auspol, eight is a geologic eon.
Proud Parent Moment
‘The place you want to be’: How a Melbourne teenager went from watching YouTube to a New York stage
For budding jazz musicians around the world, this program is the north star. Now a group of Australian classmates are joining in, showing the world what their school band can do.
www.theage.com.au
May 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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