Ettention Please: Stories that didn’t get enough — if any! — coverage this week
A mayor doxxing a political rival, a DJ being linked to terrorism and a takedown of Labor's NDIS cuts.
Soaliha Iqbal
Ette's Friday Book Club: April Edition
This month we're spotlighting a buoyant, intimate memoir that seamlessly fuses history and biography and a disarmingly sincere novel that may best be understood backwards.
Ettention Please: Stories that didn’t get enough coverage this week
A concerning video of WA Police, the arrest of an American journalist in Kuwait, and repaid wage theft by Sydney University.
Ettention Please: stories that didn’t get enough coverage this week
From federal government 'genocide grants' to an acclaimed actress considering legal action against WA police to a cheeky stunt that highlights a dark reality for supermarket goers.
Ettention Please: stories that didn’t get enough coverage this week
More deaths in custody and terrifying new ASIO powers, yet muted (if any) coverage from legacy media.
Ette's Friday Book Club: March Edition
This month we're spotlighting a tender, cathartic tale and a read that couldn't be further from that
Minns wants 'context' on police brutality and NSW Police violent history delivers it
Here’s some context about NSW police’s history of brutal force.
Who gets to be a victim?
When an 'unexpected' victim is killed — a white person, for example — what usually follows is an outpouring of grief and media coverage. Otten the two go hand in hand. When a black and/or brown people is killed, the reaction often differs.
Opinion: Pauline Hanson Stays Relevant Because the Media Makes Sure of It
'Pauline Hanson and what she represents have been a spectre looming over me not just throughout my entire career, but also many life milestones and memories.'
Opinion: Victoria’s crime ‘crisis’ only exists in the headlines
Victoria is buzzing with outrage over youth crime as the state rolls out its punitive “adult time for violent crime” laws. It feels like the predictable final act of a media-stoked and politicised crime panic used to justify swelling police powers.