With You We Can: The Podcast
With You We Can: The Podcast is a long-form audio series exploring justice, culture and systemic reform after sexual violence. Its debut season, What No One Told Us, examines the realities of navigating Australia’s legal system, and the growing fight for legal literacy, procedural rights and independent legal representation for victim-survivors.
Born from host and Executive Director of With You We Can Sarah Rosenberg’s own experience and years of national advocacy, the series sits at the centre of a live moment of legal reform. Through examining police as the gatekeepers of justice and exploring calls for cultural and legislative change following the Australian Law Reform Commission’s landmark recommendations, this series investigates a confronting question: why are victim-survivors still the only people in court without a lawyer?
Across the season, advocates, lawyers, academics, police and policymakers come together to unpack the realities of an adversarial legal system - and the attrition, confusion and harm that too often define it.
This is not a podcast about legal theory in isolation. It is about power, participation, credibility, culture and what justice actually means when systems were never designed with victim-survivors in mind.
Learn more about the justice system and Sarah's advocacy at www.withyouwecan.org, and follow @withyouwecan_ on Instagram.
Episodes
3 episodes
The Gatekeepers of Justice, with Karen Iles
A conversation with award-winning lawyer Karen Iles about credibility and institutional power inside the criminal justice system, and the difficult questions surrounding who gets believed, supported and pursued through the law.Check out ...
Inside The First Door, with Jacob Gooden
What really happens when someone first reports sexual violence to police? This episode with former Victorian police officer Jacob Gooden explores the immense power held at the earliest stages of the justice process, and how first responses can ...
The Culture We Swim In, with Mia Findlay
A conversation with advocate and educator Mia Findlay about the cultural forces that shape how sexual violence is understood, minimised and responded to in Australia - and what it takes to challenge the narratives we’ve been taught to accept.
