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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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See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill
(presenter),
( dir. Tosca Looby
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2021
Australia
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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)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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What I’m Reading
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020; -
Life Writing When the World Is Burning: The Year in
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
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.'
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At Home with Jess Hill
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
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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Author Jess Hill’s Inner Power
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)
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Rewriting the Script
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2019;
— Review of See What You Made Me Do 2019 multi chapter work criticism 'Meticulously fairminded, Jess Hill uncovers a surprisingly consistent pattern to domestic abuse' -
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Jess Hill : See What You Made Me Do
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
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.
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Stella Prize 2020 : A Readers’ Guide to the Contenders
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)
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Domestic Abuse Investigation by Journalist Jess Hill Wins Stella Prize for Writing by Australian Women
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.'
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Author Jess Hill’s Inner Power
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)
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y
At Home with Jess Hill
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
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.
Awards
- 2020 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 2020 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Non-Fiction
- 2020 highly commended Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book
- 2020 winner Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
- 2020 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year