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David Nicholls

David Nicholls

David Nichols lectures in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book, co-authored with Graeme Davison and Renate Howe, is Trendyville: the Battle for Australia's Inner Cities (2014) and he is co-editor, with Kate Darian-Smith and Catherine Driscoll, of the forthcoming Cultural Sustainability In Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns, published by Ashgate.

David Nichols reviews 'Pentridge: Behind the Bluestone Walls' by Don Osborne

April 2016, no. 380 30 March 2016
Last year, a trip to the Pentridge Prison grounds – what's left of them – gave me a hundred insights into the horrors of life in that institution: the close quarters, constant surveillance, poor sanitation, and dependence on interminable, senseless routine, an imagined reform through discipline. These insights gave only a small understanding of the rigours of incarceration in Pentridge. Don O ... (read more)