Exhaustion: A Monologue
Creative writing piece by Meera Atkinson in collaboration with formerly incarcerated people with a history of injecting drug use and participants in a recent study by the University of New South Wales.
Crime
Why Criminalisation of Coercive Control is Not Enough
While coercive control legislation would mark a monumental shift away from the violence model of abuse, which sensationalises discrete episodes of physical assault, the reality is that the laws are unlikely, in and of themselves, to serve victims’ needs and prevent future harm.
Juries in an age of trial by media
Can juries really be impartial on high profile cases when they are saturated by the media with information, opinion and propaganda about the people they are judging?
Australians can no longer look away from BLM
As the world learns of police brutality in the US, Australians are too ready to ignore the deaths of Bla(c)k people in their own country.
Balibo 5 Murders Remain a Secret 45 Years On
On the 45th anniversary of the Balibo 5 murders, Australia’s secret intelligence service still refuses to publicly reveal what it knows, writes Clinton Fernandes.
There Are No Heroes: a review of Keeper
Not a psychological thriller, nor a whodunnit, Jessica Moor’s debut novel, The Keeper, is emphathic and diligent in it’s efforts to move issues surrounding domestic violence into the mainstream
Weaponised weathers: heat, Don Dale, and ‘everything-ist’ prison abolition
Oppressive heat, humidity and poor ventilation: how Australia’s carceral system weaponises more-than-human forces, like the weather.
Stripping children of dignity
Thousands of humiliating strip searches have been carried out on young children in our criminal justice system: is this a dignified practice?
Checkpoint at the Green Line (excerpt from Murder Under the Bridge)
Read an excerpt of Kate Jessica Raphael’s crime fiction novel ‘Murder Under the Bridge’, which is drawn directly from the author’s experiences in Palestine.
Hunting the trolls: Interview with Ginger Gorman
Jay Thompson speaks to Ginger Gorman about the harm caused by online trolling and how it can cross over into the offline world.
The last stand
Farah Beaini’s poem is dedicated to honour those who fell victims to senseless violent terrorist attacks, both in Melbourne and internationally.