Calling A Spade, A Spade - With Julie Macken

The Five Minute Advocate Podcast

This week on the Five Minute Advocate Julie Macken explores how our society has collectively normalised human rights abuses — so much so, they barely register as atrocities anymore. From Trump’s praise for El Salvador’s brutal prisons to Australia’s own offshore detention regime, she shares the harrowing story of refugee Benham Sattar and connects it to the urgent need to name atrocities clearly, including the ongoing devastation in Gaza. Julie implores us to rediscover our capacity to be outraged by the human rights abuses Australia is committing or is complicit in and to call out these abuses in clear honest language —because if we can’t even name the injustice, how can we ever hope to stop it?

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