This afternoon in Naarm/Melbourne! Snap action rally for Poccum's Law at 4.30pm on Parliament Steps #bailsaveslives

@moniquehurley.bsky.social and I on the media-manufactured crime panic in Victoria and why Premier Allan's reactionary bail changes will make communities less safe #bailsaveslives #poccumslaw rightnow.org.au/opinion/why-...

Bail saves lives, but the Allan Government is introducing dangerous and discriminatory bail laws. We stand with VALS and 93 Aboriginal, human rights, community and legal organisations in calling on the Allan Government to instead implement #PoccumsLaw. www.vals.org.au/granting-bai...

"Governments spend money on the things that matter to them (building prisons), and drag their feet about the things that seemingly do not (preventing torture in prisons)." Vacro board member @moniquehurley.bsky.social and Andreea Laschz in @overlandjournal.bsky.social:

Criminalising poverty to 'fight crime', thereby creating a crime people cannot help but commit. Crime machine goes brrr. This is cruel and nonsensical.

And the thing is, the war never ended. The tactics just changed. 'More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

National Gallery of Australia literally had Pacific Indigenous art collective SaVĀge K’lub cover up the Palestinian flag in their work days before the opening of their exhibition. This racist censorship is rife throughout the arts in Australia, it is disgusting! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Chris Minns’ youth bail laws are working. The laws are designed to incarcerate presumptively innocent children. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

AI boosters in higher ed are so embarrassing - deskilling yourself, for what? Eroding the value of education, for what? Pandering to the interests of the bosses and the billionaires, for what? Accelerating climate change, for what?

My new article for The Conversation.

An open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah.

harsher penalty deterrnce is the most disproven political claim in crime policy. Here is the 2025 Productivity Commission report detailing over $25 billion spent on maintaining a carceral state that does not stop <AND IS ITSELF> violence. www.pc.gov.au/ongoing/repo...

Great new article by @monish.bsky.social in Critical Criminology: “… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"How can we trust the Victorian Government to deliver a genuine Treaty when it insists on keeping it’s foot on the neck of Aboriginal communities through tough law and order approaches?” - Nerita Waight, CEO of Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service www.vals.org.au/granting-bai...

Look ma, I'm finally white.

The only thing I need to know about Deepsock or whatever it’s called is, does it use as much energy and water as ChatGPT? Does it have the same climate implications? Will it be used to plagiarise and steal from artists and writers?

A must read from our EO, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social Murdoch, we won’t let you silence our anti-racism work!

This is clearly hateful and completely counter to the evidence showing the importance and safety of these treatments for trans kids. Absolutely appalling and dangerous ban #auspol

"Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?" Institute Associate @blatmannaama.bsky.social co-authors a new article for The Conversation: bit.ly/PrisonsAustr...

Instead of drinking coffee at my kitchen bench listening to the Triple R Breakfasters, tomorrow I'll be in the studio with them! Tune in at 7.15am AEDT to hear about the 'prison boom' in Australia and efforts to challenge it.

We’re not going to back down.

Get emailing, folks! @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social and @sarahschwartz.bsky.social do incredible, collaborative work to create the tools we all need to dissect and dismantle racism

Statement on my speech at a comedy event pillorying Peter Dutton’s racist, ignorant and monolithic conception of Jewish people

The attacks on @sarahschwartz.bsky.social are part of an organised, deliberate campaign to silence critics of Israel & smear them as antisemitic. That these attacks often target young women, Palestinian or Jewish, is not a coincidence. Disgusted at Australian “media” for indulging this violence

"Instead of falsely positioning prisons as economic panaceas [that] create safety through punishment...govts need to direct funding towards the infrastructure that strengthens communities and enhances security for all: housing, healthcare, education, healthy environments and sustainable employment."

This piece by @emmakrussell.bsky.social and co. is so important. We know law and order policies fail, and we know what works: comprehensive reintegration services for those leaving prison; and investments in strong communities, which prevent people from going to prison in the first place.

Incarceration doesn't make for safer communities - this carceral "common sense" needs critical examination so we can understand what prisons are really for, & the impact they really have, in the colony Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!

If prison beds are built, they will be filled... Amplifying calls to stop prison expansion and build real community safety through alleviating structural inequalities, with @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge

New piece out, co-authored with @emmakrussell.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social Francis Markham, Andrew Burridge. On Australia’s prison boom and why it must stop. Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them? theconversation.com/prisons-dont...

Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

We Grow the World Together is a vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition. For every copy we sell on our website this month, we'll send a free copy through our Books Not Bars program to a reader who is currently incarcerated.

It's been over 34°C for two weeks in Darwin and there are reports that women in Darwin Correction Centre are facing overcrowding, broken air con and being locked outside without enough shade! Sign onto this petition to add your voice to our letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da...

A bit about the Australian Critical Border Studies Network for the benefit of our new followers. We are a bit of an academic garage band convened by @arijerrems.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Andrew Burridge. The last few years we've organised a bunch of stuff... 1/6