Ep. 58: Where justice ends
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The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Annabel Hennessy was reporting on another case when she heard a name that would change everything. A lawyer, expert in First Nations’ rights, told her about Jody Gore - a woman convicted of murder with little weight given to the years of domestic abuse she suffered.
This story unravels how Annabel’s groundbreaking series of articles led to real change in Western Australia.
WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of domestic abuse and may not be suitable for all. If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic violence, support is available globally through a number of hotlines and organisations, some are listed below.
Note - a previous version of this episode wrongly called Annabel's paper the Western Australian, it is, of course: the West Australian. Apologies.
Read all about it:
Interview with Dr Hannah McGlade, from Noongar Dandjoo TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5o91-fvYiE
This show is a co-production of Studio to be.
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Co-Executive Producers: Joaquin Alvarado and Ken Ikeda
Producer: Olivia Aylmer
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If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic violence, support is available globally through a number of hotlines and organisations. Here are just a few:
22 Standout Groups Stopping Domestic Violence: https://greatist.com/happiness/stop-domestic-violence-organizations#get-help-now
AUSTRALIA
Djirra, an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation which provides holistic, culturally safe and specialist legal and non-legal support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience family violence – predominantly women: https://djirra.org.au/who-we-are/
1800RESPECT: https://www.1800respect.org.au/help-and-support/services-overview
UK
Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline: https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/
USA
National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/
CANADA
Shelter Safe: https://sheltersafe.ca/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start, this episode deals with domestic violence and includes graphic imagery that may not be suitable for all. |
| 0:08.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:13.0 | Annabel Hennessey, a journalist at the West Australian newspaper, was reporting on the case of an Aboriginal woman, a survivor of domestic violence. |
| 0:22.6 | This woman had been due to appear in court as a witness in her own case, |
| 0:27.4 | but she'd missed a court hearing because she was sick. |
| 0:31.1 | In Australia, you miss a court hearing and you're a witness, |
| 0:35.0 | they can put an arrest warrant out for you. |
| 0:37.8 | And so they put an arrest warrant out for this woman who's this victim of domestic violence. |
| 0:42.1 | She ended up getting put into a lockup overnight. |
| 0:45.6 | She was pregnant at the time. |
| 0:47.4 | She's never been in jail in her life. |
| 0:49.2 | So it was a very traumatising ordeal for her. |
| 0:52.1 | Annabelle was shocked that the judicial system would treat this woman, who was the victim in this |
| 0:56.9 | case, almost as if she were a criminal. Could it be that this woman's status, as an Aboriginal |
| 1:03.6 | woman, had some bearing on her treatment? Was this a one-off? Or could it be happening elsewhere? |
| 1:10.5 | And I ended up speaking to this human rights lawyer, Hannah Maglade. |
| 1:14.4 | Hannah Maglade herself is part of an Aboriginal community. |
| 1:17.8 | The story of the woman, jailed overnight for not showing up to her own domestic violence hearing, didn't surprise her. |
| 1:25.2 | The legal system's treatment of domestic violence victims as perpetrators in their |
| 1:29.8 | own cases was something Hannah had encountered often in her legal work. And she mentioned this case, |
| 1:36.1 | a woman named Jodi Gore to me. Here is Hannah talking to Nunga Danjo TV. I was asking questions |
| 1:42.8 | on behalf of a media contact actually about if I knew any women who were in prison because of violence against them. |
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