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Tabitha Lean

Pearls and Irritations

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Violence in prisons isn’t a surprise: It’s inevitable

16.11.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Tabitha Lean

When media and the state collude

It was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day meant to mark the start of a 16-day global campaign to end the...

03.12.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Tabitha Lean

Fighting coercive control: Why we can’t police our way to safety

Last week the state of South Australia moved another step closer to criminalising coercive control, with the bill passing through the House of...

18.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Tabitha Lean

A dangerous move toward a modern-day Stolen Generation

By focusing on punitive programs instead of community-driven support over a ‘youth crime crisis’ that did not exist, the incoming Queensland LNP...

29.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Tabitha Lean

Lidia, I’m angry, too

A lot has been written in the past few days about Senator Lidia Thorpe and her courageous act of speaking truth to power when she confronted...

25.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Tabitha Lean