Waleed Ali

Well, you've got to be careful now, because we've seen... This is the lesson we refuse to learn.

There's allegations made, and we jump in and we start doing commentary.

Then later, a court reaches a decision and we go, oh, what do we do now?

increasingly, I think what's happening is that whether they, journalists, commentators, default to the accusers or not, depends on their pre-existing politics.

Do they fit into the boxes that I want to defend or not?

And that's just backwards.

That's just the wrong way to approach these things.

Waleed Ali, Chow Tan, The Project 2043.

She told me about the hug in 2014.

The hug happened in Adelaide, I think in March.

She told me the same day because she called me on the phone to tell me about it.

It happened during a rehearsal.

Now we're in costume.

He asked her for a cuddle.