Podcasts vs Justice is a greyscale drawing by Jess Harwood, self-published on the 8th of July 2025. It depicts the outline of two simple buildings, side by side.
On the left is a square building labelled 'Latrobe Valley Court.' From this building comes a speech bubble saying, 'One woman guilty of murder via mushrooms.' In front of this building is a bustling crowd of people waving microphones and cameras, including a microphone labelled 'daily podcast.'
On the right is a smaller building with a peaked roof labelled, 'NT Coroner.' From this building, a speech bubble says, 'The entire Northern Territory police force bears the “hallmarks of institutional racism” and that lead to the death of Kumanjayi Walker.'
In front of the Coroner’s building, a single tumbleweed rolls across an empty space.
In the bottom right corner is the artist’s signature, @jessharwoodart.
The mushroom murder trial of Erin Patterson spawned at least five dedicated podcasts and countless news reports. Around the same time, there was a coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, a Warlpiri man who was shot and killed by police while resisting arrest in the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu, Northern Territory. The inquest found that Walker’s death was 'avoidable' and should not have happened.
