Felicity Graham

Barrister @NSWBar. Podcaster @wigspodcast.

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

Check out latest @wigspodcast ep on the fed govt’s proposed Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill.

And my fun thing, which could be your fun thing too, on this weekend. Sculpture on the Farm, Dungog.
Artist credit: Sarrita King

[Ed Jegasothy @edjegasothy]

My fierce and courageous wife @flickgraham wrote on the NSW public mental health care crisis. Please read.

[Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá @seyeabimbola]

The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future https://t.co/2Xvh77PDnA

Please read our brief look @TheLancet's past, what it says about its present, & might about its future.

"Influence unfairly accumulated through colonialism must be redirected to egalitarian purposes."

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

@seyeabimbola @TheLancet @DrMishalK @NaiduThirusha @JesseBump @DrMNNoor @lairene1 @paimadhu @bmj_latest @NEJM @JAMA_current @ScienceMagazine Great article @seyeabimbola and team.

[Jeremy Gans @jeremy_gans]

@LibertyVic So, unless I'm wrong about all of this, there should be some consideration at some point of where this all went so wrong. Is there a big problem in federal criminal justice policy? In drafting? In scrutiny? Or is this specific to the particular issue of sexual violence?

[Jeremy Gans @jeremy_gans]

@LibertyVic Against my worry that I'm wrong is another worry: that I'm right, but that the provisions will pass anyway.

Maybe prosecutions will collapse? Maybe a defendant will be unjustly convicted? Maybe there'll be rushed legislation to fix a 'technical' problem that's come up?

[Jeremy Gans @jeremy_gans]

@LibertyVic "The proposed change means that the new Commonwealth provisions would be much more restrictive than the NSW provision in s 294CB of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) and the Victorian provision in s 342 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 (Vic)"

[Jeremy Gans @jeremy_gans]

My submission is a *very* straight run through of these problems, without my usual flourishes.

That's because I am so nervous about it. The problems I described are just *so* extreme, and yet seemingly weren't picked up at any earlier stage of the bill's development.

[Jeremy Gans @jeremy_gans]

All of this goes well beyond NSW's rape shield law, which is already controversial for the limits it places on criminal defendants, notably on the issue of past false allegations.

The federal law blocks that too, even when it's part of a connected set of circumstances.

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

@jeremy_gans So tendency evidence by accused from years ago re same complainant is out?! This seems so mad. Quite apart from all the problems with this for an accused.

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

@jeremy_gans This kind of thing is routinely not disclosed.

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

@jeremy_gans I wonder whether they knew about the other complaints?

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.

This was the last poem he published.

[The Wigs Podcast @wigspodcast]

The Wigs look at a truly unusual and interesting decision from Justice Wigney of the Federal Court which involved a serving federal judge being ordered to pay damages for wrongfully imprisoning a man he jailed for contempt of court. #auslaw #QLDlaw #nswpol
https://t.co/6Uvfz0IXyF

[lydia_shelly @lydia_shelly]

I was a visible Muslim woman when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister (in Hijab).

I remember the overt Islamophobia. It often felt like “we” were holding onto the fabric of a country where our political leadership didn’t want “us”.

The food we ate was politicized. The way we prayed was politicized. The way we parented was politicized.

Muslim women’s bodies were politicized.

We were reduced to being seen through a security lens.

If I felt twinges of this as a privileged woman who could navigate processes & systems - how do you think other people in the Muslim community felt?

He was incredibly divisive & I know the Muslim community regularly stressed to him in public & private how damaging his comments were with respect to social cohesion.

To see a statement endorsed by him cautioning communities to not be divided rings hallow.

#socialcohesion #auspol #nswpol

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

https://t.co/aT9ChQYNfS

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

Check out latest @wigspodcast ep on the fed govt’s proposed Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill.

And my fun thing, which could be your fun thing too, on this weekend. Sculpture on the Farm, Dungog.
Artist credit: Sarrita King

[The Wigs Podcast @wigspodcast]

The Wigs Live! - The Sofronoff Inquiry and its Aftermath - LISTEN HERE: https://t.co/mH83yhpY2y #NSWPOL #AUSLAW

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

"I'm voting Yes, and I'm asking that all Australians do too."

[Felicity Graham @flickgraham]

Back in the studio with a very special guest of ⁦⁦⁦⁦@wigspodcast⁩ so listen out for another episode soon.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Making decisions based on fear is not good for us as people and won't allow us to move forward as a country.

An article by @paulsakkal in the @smh has confirmed the 'No' campaign is deliberately using misinformation to generate fear & doubt in undecided voters.