Jess Hill
@jessradio
Author of SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO (Stella Prize 2020 & now @SBS docuseries), on coercive control & domestic abuse.
📍 Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral. This tragedy must end now. Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6014sGyPq
Israel which is not allowing foreign journalists into Gaza gets US military contractors into Gaza who testify about violence against civilians being committed that they have never seen before in any war zone
EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”
Yesterday Israeli soldiers took over my wife’s parents’ home in the northern West Bank. Thankfully the house was empty. They left today—but not before ransacking the place, defecating on the floors and stealing all the gold and cash in the house, as is their practice.
Al Jazeera has published the names of every journalist killed since Oct 7th. 231 Palestinian journalists have been slaughtered in Gaza. A whole generation of reporters wiped out while many of their colleagues in the West simply shrugged.
I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair.
FARE CEO Ayla Chorley and FARE Lived Experience Advisor @MissKymmie77 joined gendered violence researcher @jessradio yesterday to meet with South Australia Minister for Consumer & Business Affairs @michaels_andrea to discuss the important work underway to amend SA's Liquor Act.
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…
'I want the world to know the evil of their system' - my disturbing interview with a Uighur woman, forced into a marriage scarred by rape and violence to free her mother from China's forced labour gulags (story below)
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Amazing research opportunity - apply to be Professor @jessradio's research assistant at UTS - 3 days per week until March 2026 recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.jsp…..
A 39-year-old woman killed at her home in Mowanjum, Western Australia, on Sunday. She is the 23rd Australian woman killed this year. The seventh woman I've confirmed killed this week and the 126th woman killed since January 1 of 2024. ❤️Support my work: australianfemicidewatch.org/support/
In 1972 an Australian woman could not even open a bank account without the backing of a man. This is the inside story of how a group of feminists forced political change. ab.co/4jyqrc8
Tomorrow on the SundayShot, Jo Dyer is joined by Jess Hill, Angela Priestley & Su Dharmapala. Plus an interview with Ashlee Donohue from Mudgin-Gal. Watch live or catch up at: youtube.com/@thesundayshot
She's 50. She's been here since she was 11. She got here a few years too late to benefit from the Reagan amnesty, and so had few options to get a green card until recently, when she qualified under VAWA. She'd come forward and filed an application and was waiting for an answer.
A 50-year-old Texas mother who has lived in the United States for nearly four decades, was detained outside her house by federal immigration agents leaving her family devastated and fighting for her release. Full story: newsweek.com/texas-mom-hugs…
"I condemn the attack by the Israeli army on a medical and emergency convoy on 23 March resulting in the killing of 15 medical personnel & humanitarian workers in #Gaza." - @volker_turk, @UNHumanRights Chief 1/3
I’ve known @CoryBooker since I was 19. For 30 years, he has been my big brother and my friend. He has been holding the floor in the US Senate for almost 14 hours. He has been holding the floor fighting for all of us. He has been holding the floor pushing back on the Trump and…
BREAKING: It has ended with one phrase from John Lewis: “Let’s get in good trouble”. - 25+ hours of Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker to Chuck Schumer: "You cannot yield the floor because I have the floor, sir. I retain the floor. This is one of the few times in my life I'll get to tell Chuck Schumer what the rules are here." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Editorial: It is almost impossible to imagine a legal system that could fail a person more comprehensively, over a longer period of time, at more levels and in more ways, than the system that failed Brittany Higgins. satpa.pe/NltnJnQ