a political satire. His subsequent television credits have included Unreal TV, Big Brother, Funky Squad and Shock Jock, a 2001 cable sitcom which he also wrote and produced. He has also built a strong career as a corporate event performer and was a sessional lecturer at RMIT University, where he taught narrative comedy for the Professional Screenwriting Advanced Diploma. In 2010, he released a guide to comedy writing, The Cheeky Monkey: Writing Narrative Comedy. In 2010, Ferguson hosted and co-produced WTF – With Tim Ferguson, a comedy chat show on community television station C31 Melbourne. In 2015, Ferguson co-wrote and co-directed the feature film Spin Out, which was released by Sony Pictures in 2016. He has co-written and produced a performance piece for orchestras, Billie and the Dinosaurs, which will debut in early 2018 at the Music for Canberra community school of which he is a patron. After leaving DAAS, Fidler became heavily involved in computers and multimedia. In 1996, he wrote the award-winning CD-ROM Real Wild Child, a history of Australian rock and roll. Fidler also wrote a regular monthly column for internet.au magazine on the digital media world, and contributed an essay to the Australian Constitutional Convention website . Although he had not initially intended to return to television, he has hosted various TV shows since 1996, including Race Around the World, Aftershock, Mouthing Off and Vulture; and spent three years in management as an editor of ABC-TV comedy before deciding he "wasn't cut out to be a manager". In 2005, Fidler ventured into radio, fronting the 7–10pm shift on ABC Local Radio station 612 ABC Brisbane. Since 2006, he has hosted the 11 am–3pm shift on 612 ABC Brisbane, with the show's first hour—known as The Conversation Hour—also broadcast on 702 ABC Sydney. He currently hosts Conversations with Richard Fidler on ABC's Radio National. In 2011, Fidler co-wrote a satirical book on Australian politics titled, Jack the Insider: The Insider's Guide to Power in Australia, released by Random House Books, New Zealand. Original and founding member Robert Piper entered into a very successful career with the United Nations, serving in Cambodia, New York, Serbia, and other countries, and later worked for the Clinton Administration. Members Current members Tim Ferguson – vocals (1984–1994, 2014–2017) Paul McDermott – vocals (1985–1994, 2014–2017) Paul Livingston – guitar (2014–2017) Past members Richard Fidler – guitar, vocals (1984–1994) Robert Piper – vocals (1984)