Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia on ABC and ABC iview S1E4 – An unlikely hero takes on laws that silence citizens and reignites a democratic struggle older than the nation itself.
When Parliament changes the rules of the ballot, thousands of Australians are quietly stripped of their right to vote. Among them is Vickie Roach – a Wiradjuri woman from the Stolen Generations, serving a prison sentence and determined not to be erased from the democratic process.
Backed by the Human Rights Law Centre, Vickie launches a High Court challenge that asks a fundamental question: can Parliament silence citizens simply because they are imprisoned? At stake is not only her vote, but the meaning of representative democracy itself.
Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 5 May at 8.30pm
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Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia on ABC and ABC iview S1E4





















