Louise Milligan is an investigative reporter for ABC TV's Four Corners and the author of Cardinal, which won the Walkley Book Award and broke massive international news preceding the court case involving one of the most senior members of the Catholic Church. Her second work is Witness: An investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice.

In this interview, Louise explains the state of our legal system and just how traumatising it can be for complainants and witnesses. Most importantly, she tells Jamila and Astrid what we can do about it.

Content warning: This interview contains references to sexual assault and sexual abuse. 

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Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman.

Chapter 1: Is there a bigger question in our current age than who do we trust and why? Jamila and Astrid consider what authority means to them these days.

Chapter 2: Jamila reflects on When We Say Black Lives Matter, the recent illustrated kids book from podcast favourite Maxine Beneba Clarke.

Chapter 3: Astrid dives deep into Noreena Hertz's The Lonely Century: Coming together in a world that's pulling apart, a nonfiction work that is uncannily timely.

Recommendations: Jamila and Astrid finally agree on recommendations! Astrid advocates for the literary merit of Barack Obama's A Promised Land, while Jamila goes for an old favourite suitable for the teenagers (and adults) in your life, George Orwell's Animal Farm.

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Jiveny Blair-West, a dating coach, co-wrote How to Make the Biggest Decision of Your Life with her father, psychiatrist George Blair-West.

In this interview, Jiveny talks Jamila and Astrid through how the younger generations can make one of the biggest decisions of their lives.

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Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman.

Chapter 1: In this Valentine week of Hallmark cards and awkward dates, Jamila and Astrid talk about love - the real, lasting, messy and sometimes boring kind that’s only rarely found on the page. 

Chapter 2: Jamila introduces Brodie Lancaster's memoir No Way! Okay, Fine.

Chapter 3: Astrid makes the case for the lasting relevance of Esther Perel's 2006 work Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence.

Recommendations: Jamila recommends an awfully long list of love stories from the Western Canon, and Astrid goes with the non-heteronormative intergalactic love story The Old Lie from Claire G. Coleman.

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Kylie Maslen's debut, Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness, is a revelation. Released in late 2020, in early 2021 the work has already been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

In this interview, Kylie talks to Jamila and Astrid about navigating the confusing complexities of chronic illness - in relationships, in professional life, and in the health system itself.

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Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman.

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider confusion, and how books - especially self-help books - can sometimes be just what you need. 

Chapter 2: Astrid introduces Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere.

Chapter 3: Jamila explores Sanjay Gupta's Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age.

Recommendations: Astrid gets rather excited about The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Jamila recommends More than a Woman by Caitlin Moran.

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Brit Bennett is an American writer with a brilliant track record. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller, as was her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020).

In this interview, Brit talks to Jamila and Astrid about her brilliant novels, and also about some big topics - passing, colourism and the state of the publishing industry.

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Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous Was a Woman.

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what it means to feel like you belong.

Chapter 2: Jamila introduces Top End Girl, Miranda Tapsell's 2020 memoir.

Chapter 3: Astrid discusses The Loudness of Unsaid Things, the debut novel by Hilde Hinton.

Recommendations: Jamila recommends Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez. Astrid recommends Growing Up Disabled in Australia, which is edited by Carly Findlay.

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Have a grumpy uncle you need to buy a Christmas gift for? Or what about your mum who has read everything already? Or do you want something uplifting for the person you love who is struggling? Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are here to help with all the Christmas book recommendations you need (and probably some that you don't).

To buy or read more about the books discussed in this episode, visit https://www.hachette.com.au/collections/future-women-festive-special 

And in other news, Anonymous Was A Woman will be back throughout 2021 thanks to Hachette Publishing. Our first episode to kick off the year will be released in late January 2021. Subscribe so you don’t miss it!

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Rick Morton joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider justice in both our personal ives and the society we live in. 

Rick is an award-winning journalist and a Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper.

His memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, longlisted for the Walkley Book of the Year, and longlisted for both Biography Book of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for the ABIA Awards. His second work, On Money, will hit the shelves before Christmas.

This is the final episode in Season 2, but we hope to be back with you soon.

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