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Articles by Justine McGill
By her own words
How systemic misconceptions around women’s guilt led to a 20-year miscarriage of justice for Kathleen Folbigg “They took my words out of context and turned them against me. They accused me of something I never wrote about, never did, and never could do.” — Kathleen Folbigg, 2023 Between 1989 and 1999, Craig and Kathleen Folbigg’s four children died mysteriously, one after another. In 2003, their mother was found guilty of the murder of three of her children and manslaughter of one.
The Tate race
Online misogyny touted by the likes of Andrew Tate (awaiting trial for human trafficking and rape) is radicalising Australian schoolboys “What do you think of Andrew Tate, Miss?” It’s a Molotov cocktail thrown from the back of the class where a bunch of Year 8 boys are sitting about a metre out from their desks because, well, they’re too massive to tuck themselves in now. There’s a groan around the room. A couple of the girls roll their eyes, other male students gaze longingly out the window.
Whose ABC?
Amid questions of relevance and culture war hostilities, the ABC’s charter clearly makes the case for a government-funded national broadcaster It turns out that media might have been the wrong thing to call it. Maybe it was the message all along. It’s been almost 30 years since the second generation of the internet enabled a subtle shift that would transform global interaction: on social media we could talk to numberless strangers while remaining a stranger ourselves.
The interesting Mr Williams
At a time when the ABC faces more pressure than ever before, is its new chair the right person for the job? Let’s not begin with his résumé, but with the man himself. There’s one word you’ll hear a lot when people discuss Kim Williams. That word is “interesting”. Often, it’s accompanied by an intensifier – Kim Williams is seriously interesting, or fucking interesting. Sometimes the word “interesting” is used flatteringly; sometimes it serves as a diplomatic euphemism.
March 2024
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