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All episodes by Sarah Krasnostein

Aug 5, 2024 •

The Train family murders: A new age of radicalisation

It was supposed to be a routine call out when four police officers attended a property in regional Queensland just before Christmas in 2022. The young officers approached the house, looking to do a routine welfare check, when they were fired on. After a siege that lasted hours, six people were killed, including two constables.

Now, an inquest is looking into the events that led to the deaths and asking how Australia’s first fundamentalist Christian terror attack happened.

Jul 20, 2023 •

How the Matildas are taking on the world

The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off tonight, with the Matildas playing Ireland in Sydney.

But, as the game’s popularity explodes and the players cement themselves as household names, the Matildas are still fighting for basic rights – like equal pay.

Mar 22, 2022 • 14m 15s

Sarah Krasnostein on Australia’s mental health crisis

For a long time, we’ve known Australia’s mental health system is overwhelmed and under-resourced. As a result, those who need help can end up trapped in the criminal justice system. But these outcomes aren’t new; they can be traced back to colonisation. Today, Sarah Krasnostein on how Australia’s history of incarceration and shame informs the current crisis.

Jun 5, 2021 • 35m22s

Weekend Read: Sarah Krasnostein on the most hated man

Today, Sarah Krasnostein, the best-selling author of ‘The Trauma Cleaner’, reads her essay from the latest issue of The Monthly. It’s called ‘The most hated man’ and it explores the sentencing of Richard Pusey, who was convicted of outraging public decency after he filmed the horrific aftermath of a car crash that killed four police officers.

Oct 1, 2019 • 19m19s

Part two: The sentencing of Jaymes Todd

The judge who sentenced Jaymes Todd for the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon was asked to consider Todd’s age, autism diagnosis and early guilty plea.

Sep 30, 2019 • 15m49s

Part one: The murder of Eurydice Dixon

One of the terrible facts about the day Jaymes Todd killed Eurydice Dixon is that for him it was almost all very ordinary.

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