The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 30 January 2021 Crass message boards, video-games, multi-billion-dollar losses, weaponised derivatives trading, and pure hubris. This story has it all. inkl Originals · Jan 30, 2021
For whom the bell polls Local media, not polling, is what’s needed to preserve democracy. inkl Originals · Jan 27, 2021
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 23 January 2021 President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr is faced with more than his fair share of challenges. All of them pale in significance to climate change. inkl Originals · Jan 23, 2021
How private prison contracts put a price on human lives How much is a human life worth in the private prison system? inkl Originals · Jan 22, 2021
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 16 January 2021 Isolated, and now twice impeached. Donald Trump's final week in office is looking macabre. And he can't even tweet about it. inkl Originals · Jan 16, 2021
Victorian government readies for higher “targets” of prison numbers The Victorian budget revealed that the state government expects the prison population to surge again in 2021. inkl Originals · Jan 15, 2021
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 9 January 2021 It’s a New Year, but don’t expect you can escape the death throes of the Trump presidency just because a 16th century pope wanted a new calendar. This week almost feels like a year in itself - we’ve seen a pair of the most decisive Senate races in recent memory,… inkl Originals · Jan 9, 2021
An election calls for a more representative economy A Federal election is not that far away. Post-COVID the economy will matter more than ever and needs to extend to more than a “blokecovery”. inkl Originals · Jan 5, 2021
“A recipe for tragedy”: Concerns over expanded role for PSOs Concerns continue over the increasing use of Protective Service Officers to boost police numbers, as one is charged for violent behavior. inkl Originals · Dec 31, 2020
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 26 December 2020 EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week was fun – let's reprise the good times. In our last issue of the Weekly Wrap for 2020 we'll cover a years worth of inspiring and positive news in the fields of the climate and environmental sciences. A lot has happened beyond the coronavirus-imposed dip in… inkl Originals · Dec 26, 2020
Coate inquiry reveals a dysfunctional Victorian public service The Coate report reveals a bigger issue than a failed hotel quarantine process - a Victorian public service with serious problems. inkl Originals · Dec 23, 2020
More than one woman every week There is hope that the numbers of women killed every year through violence is reducing, but we have to remain vigilant. inkl Originals · Dec 22, 2020
Victoria and NSW embrace private prisons as rest of Australia moves away Australia’s two largest states show no signs of moving away from private prisons despite Queensland and Western Australia recently taking a number of facilities back into public hands. inkl Originals · Dec 21, 2020
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 19 December 2020 EDITOR'S NOTE: It has been a difficult year. Not quite as bad as 1347 AD, or 541 AD, but challenging nonetheless. Given [gestures broadly] we've decided to diverge from our usual programming and sample some of the stories most worth celebrating this year. There's been quite a few more than… inkl Originals · Dec 19, 2020
inkl Originals · Dec 18, 2020 The blow of redundancy during a pandemic For many people, even those good at their jobs, COVID brought a harsher reality than just lockdowns - a loss of their jobs
inkl Originals · Dec 17, 2020 Victoria’s locked-down towers: 32 skipped hours revealed decades of problems “A very dark episode in our recent history,” is how Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass today described the hard lockdown imposed on public housing tenants last July.
inkl Originals · Dec 15, 2020 ‘Real men’ and ‘good women’: how words create power and shame Words loaded with shame are used to perpetuate all the myths about gender stereotypes. We need to be better, for everyone.
inkl Originals · Dec 12, 2020 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 12 December 2020 Where were you during the largest general strike in history? This isn’t a curve-ball: it was just two weeks ago. 250m people (according to trade union estimates) took part in a general strike in India on the 26th of November. Even adjusting for the rubbery figures of organisers, that's a…
inkl Originals · Dec 11, 2020 The problem with Aboriginal sporting comparisons Let’s celebrate 11 more Indigenous players joining an AFL senior list.
inkl Originals · Dec 9, 2020 Without trust in the media, democracy can’t work The Finkelstein Inquiry made some suggestions that are worth revisiting some twenty years on, including a recommendation for a Productivity Commission.
inkl Originals · Dec 9, 2020 It’s time we share the second shift The pandemic has exposed the ongoing gendered division of labour. As we return to ‘normal’ there is a chance for change.
inkl Originals · Dec 5, 2020 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 5 December 2020 The “dirty birds’” shadows stretch the whole way across the human culinary experience. We eat so very many of them. From those reared in conscience-appeasing organic environs to those making a fatal, final escape from a cruelty-maximising factory farm, millions of these avian prisoners are roasted, fried, stewed, boiled, and…
inkl Originals · Dec 4, 2020 Australian sports grapple with domestic violence Lekahni Pearce is the newest public face of a domestic violence problem that isn’t going away.
inkl Originals · Dec 3, 2020 The media spin on readership numbers is enough to make PR proud Who has the biggest readership among Australian media outlets? Well that all depends where you are getting your story from
inkl Originals · Dec 1, 2020 The Good news, the bad news and then the statistics The nature of statistics means we always need to look at them in context, something headlines rarely do.