From the road
Daily writing as the Empathy Ledger travels Australia: art centres, justice reinvestment sites, and the Goods on Country test. What we saw, who we sat with, what we are learning.
Thursday 29 October 2026
We know how to build places to hold people. Have we given the same thought to building communities that can hold them? We talk about community safety as though it begins with policing and ends with pu…
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Wednesday 28 October 2026
This week, the Youth Advocacy Centre said it lost $3 million in Queensland Government funding for its bail support work. That's nineteen frontline jobs and around 350 young people a year who may lose …
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Tuesday 27 October 2026
There's a lot being said about young people across Australia right now. A lot of judgement, a lot of fear, and a lot of talk about how we deal with young people when things go wrong. But I wonder how …
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One of the places I’ve felt most at home was a prison in Bolivia. I’m still trying to understand what that says about me. I don’t mean that prison felt like somewhere I wanted to remain. I could leave…
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