Articles - Gabriel Mills-Connolly

Some of My Beautiful Work

The Westsider • 30th November 2025

Kealba landfill disaster: a toxic prison locals can’t escape, and no end in sight

By Gabriel Mills-Connolly (RMIT Journalism graduating student)

An environmental disaster at the Kealba landfill is set to continue indefinitely with the company responsible likely to get its license to operate returned.

The landfill is owned and operated by the concreting company Barro Group and has been burning for six years sending toxic fumes into nearby neighborhoods.

The EPA has been in a legal battle with Barro since they revoked Barro’s operating licence back in 2023, but in a re...

The Western Suburbs Could Look Very Different in The Coming Years.

My final edit of the Activity Centres Program story written for The Westsider

Gabriel’s Substack • 29th October 2022

Recidivism and Youth Incarceration

This is an excerpt of a group article but it has important audio clips embedded into the article.

published October 2022

The idea behind incarceration is to reduce crime, provide a disincentive for committing a crime and subsequently reduce the prison population. To understand if a penial system is working one of the key figures to look at is the recidivism rate of each country.

Gabriel’s Substack • 19th October 2022

Do You Trust the Government?

Written in October 2022

Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose and over the past decade trust in government has been on a decline.
The if the trust in government has declined then how did this effect the results of the 2010’s federal elections?

Gabriel’s Substack • 27th June 2025

Bring Her Back: A Movie Worth Watching, Even if You Can’t Look at The Screen

As the credits rolled the cinema was silent. This silence followed me home, sitting in the corners of my house that now felt ominous, sleeping an impossible feat whilst shut eyes replayed gruesome scenes from the eerily quiet Complex I’d come from.

Gabriel’s Substack • 20th June 2025

Obi Wan Kenobi Dazzles but Does it Deliver?

23 years ago Star Wars: A Phantom Menace dropped in the theatres to a much mixed response. Marred by convoluted plot and flawed CGI a lot of people were very disappointed with the departure of quality the originals offered.As the trilogy came to an end there was one consistency of quality that the fans and average movie watchers noticed, that was the incredible performance of Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan Kenobi.17 years later Ewan McGregor is back and better than ever in the famous role for a limite...

Gabriel’s Substack • 11th June 2024

What Makes Ballard’s Work?

7pm, its a Winter Thursday and walking High street, Thornbury, packs of beautiful Melbournite’s pass you by as you wander up the street. Something is off though there weren’t as many bars as there were last time you wandered the streets in search of a good time.Walking past Capers is a sight for sore eyes, the space is red warm and naturally its busy the people are happy, and the bartenders are killing it. But the bar isn't the vibe tonight, the place in mind is possibly the hottest spot in High...

Gabriel’s Substack • 20th June 2025

A Student Navigating the World of Australian Fashion

A Cover Story About a Fashion Student in May 2022

Prisons: Where Does Australia Stand? – The City Journal

Australia has 115 correctional facilities that are managed by the state or territory were they are located.

As of June 2022 there are 40,627 persons in custody across the country. NSW having the most prisoners of any state with 12,453 people serving time and the ACT having the least amount of prisoners with only 383 people serving time.