Not Good Enough
Pat Hudson
Two people, both engrossed in their morning newspapers, casually play 'headline tennis', unwittingly trivialising the stories they read. Hudson draws attention to the media using the 'good bloke' trope, which casts acts of violence as aberrations by male perpetrators and is used too often to explain away horrific acts, ignoring their consequences for victims. The newspaper headline's simplistic suggestion - 'double the penalties' - fails to address the core causes of domestic violence.
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