85 episodes

This is Curtain – a podcast where we pull back the blinds to shine a light on the darkest parts of our justice system and ask – who are the victims?Could an Aboriginal man who has served 25 years in prison for Murder be innocent?Hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson 

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This is Curtain – a podcast where we pull back the blinds to shine a light on the darkest parts of our justice system and ask – who are the victims?Could an Aboriginal man who has served 25 years in prison for Murder be innocent?Hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson 

    Finding the Missing with their Phones.

    Finding the Missing with their Phones.

    In episode 7 hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson explain the vital tool that is triangulation, and the way it is used to locate missing and murdered people. But it is a technology that is not applied equally, with police failing to deploy this vital resource all too often. The Australian parliament has recently passed new legislation to improve its use, but does it really address the root issue?

    This episode is proudly brought to you by BlakCast and produced by Clint Curtis.
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    • 32 min
    Rolfe Takes the Stand

    Rolfe Takes the Stand

    In episode 6 hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson discuss the testimony of Zachary Rolfe at the coronial inquest into the 2019 police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker. Racism, repeated violence and a media determined to hide the truth is only the beginning of what was revealed.

    Curtain the Podcast is brought to you by the BlakCast Network and is produced by Clint Curtis.
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 25 min
    Asking Questions of an Inquiry

    Asking Questions of an Inquiry

    In episode 5 hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson are again analysing the National inquiry into Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Children. The latest hearings took place in Queensland and once again, the failures of the police and the inquiry to hold them to account was front and centre.

    Curtain the Podcast is brought to you by the BlakCast Network and is produced by Clint Curtis.

     
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    • 29 min
    Missing While Blak

    Missing While Blak

    In Episode 4, Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson discuss Missing White Woman Syndrome and compare police and media responses between when a white child goes missing to when a blak child goes missing. The data will horrify you, it's even worse than you can imagine!

    Curtain the Podcast is brought to you by the BlakCast Network and is produced by Clint Curtis.
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 27 min
    Aunty Queenie Hart, The Truth

    Aunty Queenie Hart, The Truth

    In Episode 3, Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson speak with the niece of Aunty Queenie Hart, Debbie West. With all three having worked closely together to have Queenie reburied at home in Cherbourg, this episode provides a chance for the family to take power of their own story, for Queenie's humanity to be heard and written into history, and for her killer to be named without any equivocation. This episode is the justice the Queensland courts and police could not provide!

    Curtain the Podcast is brought to you by the BlakCast Network and is produced by Clint Curtis.

     
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    • 28 min
    Landscape of Disappearance

    Landscape of Disappearance

    In Episode 2, Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson begin tracing the origins of the present crisis, in which Aboriginal women are being targeted for violence and disappearing. We begin with a story that connects the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) with the disappearing of Aboriginal women in our own country. Martin then looks back in the historical archive to understand how the history of gendered and racialised violence is repeated and reproduced throughout the generations. 
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    • 23 min

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