Episode 8 -Season 2- Same Law, Different Justice in Australia: Race, Class, and Domestic Violence Self-Defence

In this episode, Dr. D appears on The Tumble Upward Podcast with Kyrren to discuss two Australian cases involving women who killed their abusive partners in the context of domestic violence and self-defence. Although both cases involved women, intimate partner violence, lethal force, and the same wider legal system, the outcomes were starkly different: one woman avoided incarceration, while the Aboriginal woman was imprisoned. This conversation examines how race, class, wealth, and institutional bias can shape whose fear is believed, whose survival is criminalised, and who receives mercy from the justice system.