Chrissie Trabucco and Imogen Hayes are people who like to have fun. Their friends like to have fun, too. But when those wasted days spent unpleasantly hungover started to add up, their solution wasn’t to throw the baby out with...
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“A Crime Scene”: Basim Alobeidi and The Psychological Ramifications of Hotel Detention
It’s late on a Friday evening in April, and the Morrison government is releasing the last of the refugees locked in hotel detention. These Alternative Places of Detention, or APODS, linger as a murky blotch on the former...
Women’s trauma, the body and the failure of language
Laura Hartnell’s eyes shift from left to right as she gathers her thoughts. It is as if she is searching inside her mind rather than looking outward. She stops and looks straight at me. “There’s still a real lack of tolerance in...