#robodebtRC #auspol #RickMorton #TheSaturdayPaper

Here's a thread from Twitter you may wish to read by Rick Morton, Senior Reporter at the Saturday Paper on the Robodebt Royal Commission Report - an on going process with more to come...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677085627811246081.html

#robodebtRC #auspol #RickMorton #TheSaturdayPaper

Here's a thread you may wish to read by Rick Morton, Senior Reporter at the Saturday Paper on the Robodebt Royal Commission Report - an on going process with more to come...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677085627811246081.html

Robodebt and the empathy bypass
By #RickMorton #TheMonthly #Auspol
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/march/rick-morton/robodebt-and-empathy-bypass

“If you actually want to stop another Robodebt from happening or, heavens, dismantle a cold and callous state apparatus that sees people it is meant to serve only as expendable units in a power-struggle involving career advancement and political favour then this is the most important inquiry of our generation.”

Rick Morton’s substack on Robodebt Royal Commission’s 2023 hearings: ‘Nobody Expects The Vanished Inquisition’
https://rickmorton.substack.com/p/nobody-expects-the-vanished-inquisition

#RickMorton #RobodebtRC #Robodebt #AusPol

Book 1 of 2023
One Hundred Years of Dirt by @squigglyrick (2018 Melbourne University Press)
This is a powerful memoir, and to quote the blurb because it says everything, a meditation on anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders.
I picked it up as research for a current WIP examining masculinity, and it does this with precision, but it offers even more in terms of understanding class and privilege in Australia, and how the insidious barriers of poverty impact a person so much.
It is precise in it's language which gives an edge to the understated brutality of domestic violence, poverty and sexuality.
5 cadet journalists out of 5
#ReadingChallenge #RickMorton #OneHundredYearsOfDirt #MelbourneUniversityPress #memoir #Australia #OutbackAustralia #poverty #DomesticViolence #sexuality