How images like #DonDaleKids let us 'perform' our shock and outrage
 

How images like #DonDaleKids let us 'perform' our shock and outrage
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His head hangs forward, enclosed in a white bag k**wn in rough prison parlance as a "spit hood." His young chest exposed, two black straps tie his shoulders to the chair.

The harrowing image of then-17-year-old Dylan Voller, taken from the ABC's investigation into the 'torture' of young people at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, Australia, is just one of many instances of abuse detailed in the news program aired Monday. But it is the one that was chosen to lead a myriad news stories, and the one destined to be imprinted on the national conscience.*

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