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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 See What You Made Me Do
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'Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave? We should be asking: why did he do it?

'Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators – and the systems that enable them – in the spotlight. See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into the abuse so many women and children experience – abuse that is often reinforced by the justice system they trust to protect them. Critically, it shows that we can drastically reduce domestic violence – not in generations to come, but today.

'Combining forensic research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do radically rethinks how to confront the national crisis of fear and abuse in our homes.' (Publication summary)

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form y separately published work icon See What You Made Me Do Jess Hill , Jess Hill (presenter), ( dir. Tosca Looby ) 2021 Australia : Northern Pictures , 2021 21716218 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'A 3-part documentary series that explores one of the most complex and urgent issues of our time - domestic abuse. Presented by investigative journalist Jess Hill, this series examines the fine lines between love, abuse and power.' (Production summary)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2019 .
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      Extent: 416p.
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      • Published 24 June 2019
      ISBN: 9781760641405
    • London,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       C. Hurst ,       2020 .
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      Extent: 390p.p.
      ISBN: 9781787383685, 1787383687
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Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Rebecca Jessen , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020;
Life Writing When the World Is Burning: The Year in Kylie Cardell , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biography , vol. 43 no. 1 2020; (p. 1-8) 'It is no surprise that in Australia this year a great deal of life writing has continued to emerge in conjunction with pressing social and political issues. The ongoing national crises of refugee and asylum seeker policy, gendered abuse, and racial discrimination continue to surface in both political and literary arenas, while unprecedented bushfires have decimated the country, bringing climate change back onto the public agenda with new fury. The right of individuals to live with dignity, in safety, and free from fear—and the ongoing challenges to these rights suffered in public and domestic domains—is a connecting thread across the year’s life writing and a theme the genre is uniquely equipped to amplify.' (Introduction)
Domestic Abuse and Writing Through the Unspeakable Declan Fry , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2020;

'Recent Australian and international releases use memoir, poetry and reportage to look laterally at the trauma, grief and nuance of domestic abuse in marginalised communities.'
y separately published work icon At Home with Jess Hill Astrid Edwards (interviewer), Melbourne : Bad Producer Productions , 2020 19327304 2020 single work podcast interview

'Jess Hill is an investigative journalist. Her exceptional 2019 work See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse received the 2020 Stella Prize, and is now being published around the world.

'Jess has done what few writers can - she has taken difficult subject matter and not only made it compelling, she has contributed to a societal shift. In this interview, Jess discusses how writers can 'find the way' to the story, and also reflects on what topics she may tackle next.'

Source: The Garret.
Author Jess Hill’s Inner Power Sarah Price , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 2-8 May 2020;

'Jess Hill’s incisive examination of domestic violence saw the journalist win the coveted Stella Prize last month. But the four-year project also took an immense personal toll. “All that advice about self-care … I didn’t do any of it. I almost pointedly didn’t do it. I thought: ‘You need to feel, even just one iota of the pain and suffering the people you are talking to are feeling.’ If I was feeling really relaxed and detached from it, I wouldn’t be able to write about it in the way I wanted to … I sort of had to inhabit it.”' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon Jess Hill : See What You Made Me Do Astrid Edwards (interviewer), Melbourne : Bad Producer Productions , 2019 17416225 2019 single work podcast interview

'Jess Hill is an investigative journalist, and she has been writing about domestic abuse since 2014. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse (2019) is the culmination of that work and represents a new way of thinking about and acting on domestic abuse in Australia. It is also an example of exceptional research and the power of storytelling in non-fiction.

'Jess's reporting has received two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards. She is also a former Middle East correspondent and producer for ABC Radio.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
Stella Prize 2020 : A Readers’ Guide to the Contenders Camilla Nelson , 2020 single work
— Appears in: The Conversation , 27 March 2020;

'Words can help us imagine the world more deeply. Even as we retreat into our homes in this time of crisis, words can help us reach out to each other and pile up strength.' (Publication summary)
Domestic Abuse Investigation by Journalist Jess Hill Wins Stella Prize for Writing by Australian Women Kate Evans , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , April 2020;

'Journalist Jess Hill has won the $50,000 Stella Prize for writing by Australian women for See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc), her study of domestic abuse in Australia.'
Author Jess Hill’s Inner Power Sarah Price , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 2-8 May 2020;

'Jess Hill’s incisive examination of domestic violence saw the journalist win the coveted Stella Prize last month. But the four-year project also took an immense personal toll. “All that advice about self-care … I didn’t do any of it. I almost pointedly didn’t do it. I thought: ‘You need to feel, even just one iota of the pain and suffering the people you are talking to are feeling.’ If I was feeling really relaxed and detached from it, I wouldn’t be able to write about it in the way I wanted to … I sort of had to inhabit it.”' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon At Home with Jess Hill Astrid Edwards (interviewer), Melbourne : Bad Producer Productions , 2020 19327304 2020 single work podcast interview

'Jess Hill is an investigative journalist. Her exceptional 2019 work See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse received the 2020 Stella Prize, and is now being published around the world.

'Jess has done what few writers can - she has taken difficult subject matter and not only made it compelling, she has contributed to a societal shift. In this interview, Jess discusses how writers can 'find the way' to the story, and also reflects on what topics she may tackle next.'

Source: The Garret.
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