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Why Criminalisation of Coercive Control is Not Enough
By Gabrielle Ebeling
Failbook: How to Lose Friends and Influencers
By Angus SmithFacebook tried to use Australia as a warning to the rest of the world about what happens when you try to regulate them. Instead, they have shown that they are no longer the friendly social network and will go to great lengths to get their way.
Don’t Erase Trans Kids
By Roslyn CookThe NSW One Nation Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020, which is currently open for public comment, would deny children in our community the right to be seen, to be protected, and to be treated with integrity by schools and teachers.
Stay Quietly in Your Seats
By John BartlettIn this poem, John Bartlett examines scenes from the past and present day to consider how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Animals Make Us Human: Land and Cockatoos
Kirli Saunders in conversation with Sarah JacobAnimals Make us Human is a collection of writings reflecting on the 2019/20 bushfires. Kirli Saunders talks about her essay for the book on the glossy black cockatoo.
Coloured Water: Why Uranium is Allowed in the Water of NT Indigenous Communities
By Liam GrealyContributors
It’s Always Stage 4 in Locked Mental Health Wards
By Simon KatterlSimon Katterl takes us inside a public mental health hospital where it’s a daily battle for power and control.
“The proposal for an Indigenous voice to Parliament unites Australians because it’s a fair and modest idea. It’s a concept based on inclusive dialogue and partnership in Indigenous affairs – itself a unifying concept.”
Shireen Morris, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne University Law School