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Courting injustice
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago, colonial criminal law applied to Indigenous people in the bush was rough justice, if it...
‘This is how I will strangle you’
This story contains descriptions of violence and abuse. NATASA CHRISTIDOU’S EARLIEST memory is of her father Peter masturbating over her...
Lost for words
I GREW UP believing that I would be murdered by a stranger. I was eight years old when Sian...
On the record
A YEAR AGO, feeling hopeless about my work as a freelance writer, I began to look for other ways to...
Memorial park
DANIEL SAT ON the damp earth between two buttress roots of the massive fig tree. They rose up beside...
White justice, black suffering
Dad began this job in 1989 in the days of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He was not the only black prison guard on staff – in fact, at one point, Rockhampton’s jail had the highest percentage of Indigenous employees in the state. And yet, there were even more Murris locked up. The first thing that shocked Dad was just how many were inside, and over the next two decades he would see many of his own relatives coming through the gates.
Keeping it together
HAVE YOU EVER thought about what it would be like to have a loved one in prison? Would you...
The how matters
This story contains descriptions of violence. ON SATURDAY 15 March 2014, my stepmother Genee was shot twice in her bed...
Visiting day
ONCE A MONTH, Mrs Murphy took him on a trip to the other side of town. For these journeys...
Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus
He had four hippos in his private zoo and would visit them each dawn in his silk kimono to explain survival...
From little things
DEBBIE KILROY WAS sitting quietly at home in Brisbane on the afternoon of 6 January 2019, scrolling through social...
Mountain ashed
I’M STANDING IN the shifting forest in the muted light of dusk. Above me, a tall tree with a...
