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On this episode of The Grapevine, Dylan gets on the line with Associate Professor William Partlett at Melbourne Uni’s Law School, to discuss his article in The Conversation about the Victorian Government’s new pandemic management bill, and the apparent lack of parliamentary oversight of the powers granted under the proposed law.

Then, writer and journalist Aarti Betigeri calls in to discuss her article that appeared in the October Edition of Australian Foreign Affairs, ‘India Rising? Asia’s Huge Question’. Betigeri’s article, ‘New wave: Australia’s nation-changing Indian diaspora’, explores the fast-growing Indian-Australian community and its potential to reshape Australia’s ties to India.

And Lawyer and Writer Michael Bradley phones in to talk about his new essay for In The National Interest, ‘System Failure, The Silencing of Rape Survivors’. Bradley explores the systematic failure of the legal system to represent survivors of sexual abuse, and just how much pain a survivor must go through in the pursuit of justice.