"Every new prison built locks in decades of imprisonment, expands the state’s capacity to cage, and guarantees that more people … will be funneled into confinement rather than supported” Check our latest article: radfaction.com.au/2026/01/03/a...

This is a refusal list. A rejection of the systems that keep harm alive while calling it safety. For 2026 and every year after, let’s choose abolition, work to end poverty, and collective survival over punishment and control. 🧵

“There is, of course, no evidence that firearms are being flown into Adelaide’s prisons by drone. None was required. Because fear does something evidence cannot: it collapses scrutiny.” Full article by myself & Dan Vansetten on RAD Faction radfaction.com.au/2025/12/30/n...

“The undercover personas told the child that plans to kill an AFP officer were “a good plan”. They told him he would make a good sn1per or su1cide b0mber. They reinforced his fixation and actively escalated his thinking.” By myself and Dan Vansetten: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/24/w...

New 'street gang' laws set to allow control orders on children for association alone. These new harsh laws targeting children are also condemned. Check out these and more at: https:// radfaction.com.au/resources/ #abolition #acab #humanrights

My version of the Night Before Christmas - prison style 🎄❤️✊🏽

“…As it stands, Vlassakis now faces a real prospect of life in prison. Not accepted by his peers. Constantly fearing an attack. Probably asking himself, why did I chase the carrot?” It never works out for anyone who “cooperates” with the state. radfaction.com.au/2025/12/17/c...

In the wake of the violence at Bondi, I’ve been thinking about how we talk about harm, responsibility and safety - and the language we reach for in moments of grief.

Read my latest article in Rad Faction, discussing prison labour, union wages, and the modern slavery Australia refuses to see. radfaction.com.au/2025/12/11/p...

Some people say they’re abolitionists until life asks them to actually practice it.

If cops can be suspended WITH PAY while being investigated for killing Blak fullas, then every other person suspected of a crime can continue to receive their welfare payments FFS

Who needs horror movies when we have MyGov, gammin abolitionists, and Centrelink hold music? Welcome to the haunted house- no jump scares, just structural violence.

Time to spill the tea We practice abolition in the tiny moments, in the quiet rebellions: asking the real question, staying for the long answer, holding space for messy humanity. These lines are little offerings, soft weapons against a world that wants us hardened & silent. 🧵

Help inform the direction of our future work! Our Strategic Plan Consultation Survey is open until 10 November.

I want to say something clearly. If you come to my page thinking you’re “outing” me or exposing my criminal record, you’re not revealing anything new. What you are revealing is how comfortable you are reproducing the punishment logic of the state.

I talk about how charity & carceral logic collide, so let’s look at this post by @SecondChancesSA When an organisation that claims to support children of people in prison starts posting name & shame content, with sirens & surveillance stills, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s harm. 🧵

“This language of “care” & “safety” has become the moral cover for violence. These are sites built on control, warehouses for those our society has deemed too old, too “mad”, too disabled, or too dangerous to be free.” www.croakey.org/beyond-punis...

As Anti-Poverty Week unfolds, we need to talk about the part of poverty the public conversation always avoids: the prison system. 🧵

Heyyyyy everyone in Adelaide Please join me this weekend to make/write Christmas cards for people in prison this Christmas 🎄 It’s a drop in session, so come for an hour or come for the whole session. All materials provided. WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

Every year during Anti-Poverty Week, I find myself frustrated by how the public conversation about poverty and criminalisation plays out. The narratives are always the same: predictable, comfortable, and stripped of complexity. 🧵

An invocation for remembrance, resistance, and renewal - we remake ourselves, bone by bone, light by light.

For friends who are talking with young people about our Xmas cards for prisoners project, these slides might help guide conversations gently. They offer age-appropriate ways to talk about care, kindness, & connection to remind kids that everyone deserves to feel valued at Xmas.

In a world that teaches us to discard people when harm happens, choosing repair is a radical act. It’s how we resist the carceral logic that says punishment is the only way to respond to pain. 🧵

Our Fair Go has a fundraiser for basic operating costs. Our first goal is raising $234 to pay for a year of Zoom to have online Board meetings with quality captions for our #Deaf and #neurodivergent directors. www.gofundme.com/f/help-disab... #disability #selfadvocacy #disabled 1/

The poverty machine speaks in slogans. It tells us to “have a go,” that “nobody wants to work,” that being poor is a choice. This is gaslighting on a national scale. Let’s unpack some of that.

Carceral gaslighting is when the system tells you one thing but does the opposite. It dresses up violence as care, punishment as rehabilitation & control as protection.

BINGO & make it radical. This is about everyday actions that bring us closer to freedom. Abolition isn’t theory or slogans, it’s practice, imagination, refusal, & connection. Each square is a small act of resistance, a reminder that another world is possible & already being built.

New episode of the #freeher podcast out today, by Sisters Inside with Debbie Kilroy and myself This episode features a yarn with Lorraine Pryor, founder of Voice of Hope Check it out at: open.spotify.com/episode/4HZ5... Or on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio or PodChaser

The first piece in our Special Issue on ICL & abolition is out! It is an incredible essay by @disposablehuman.bsky.social & @debbiekilroy.bsky.social on 'the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia.' Open Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ok, we’re at the pointy end of the election, and you might need some sharp, grounded responses to get through the next day or so, to cut through the absolute nonsense that is out there right now. Remember, we CAN talk back, because our voices matter, because the future is political & personal 🧵

Apathy is how the worst people win. If you’re sick of hearing “it doesn’t matter who I vote for” these suggested come backs might be for you. Because not caring about elections is a privilege, and some people don’t have the luxury of pretending politics don’t affect them. 🧵

You’ve probably heard about the brutal mega-prisons in El Salvador. What if I told you we are not as far from that reality as we think? 🧵

I’ve written a piece about the “Lived Experience” movement: From Lived Experience “Advocates” to Loyal Servants: The Co-option of Our Pain It can be found here: www.therevolutionware.com/post/from-li...

Read a new blog post: “The End of Dreaming: How Prison Strips us of Agency, Aspiration and Imagination” on the The National Network website by Debbie Kilroy and myself thenationalnetwork.com.au/the-end-of-d...

Three Visions. One World. What do we do about harm, poverty, punishment, survival? Conservative. Reformist. Abolitionist. The answers tell you everything. The future depends on how we dream, and who we fight for. 🔥🧵

With an election on the horizon, it’s more important than ever to pay close attention to the language being used—by politicians, the media, and even ourselves. 🧵

Since the LNP first introduced the draconian & dangerous Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation, Sisters Inside and @DebKilroy have spoken out against its inherent injustice Today as the LNP expand the legislation, they double down on their opposition: sistersinside.com.au/sisters-insi...

Let’s talk about body sovereignty and what it means to no longer have domain over our flesh, nor clear inhabitance of our choices 🧵

Some thoughts on housing…..and please, please start advocating and fighting for PUBLIC housing. 🏠 🧵

What if I said to you that public call-outs aren’t as liberatory as they seem? Abolition isn’t just about tearing down prisons- it’s about rejecting carceral logic in our everyday lives. That includes the way we respond to harm. 👇🏽🧵

That tagline—“Are you looking for a career that offers both purpose and action?”—lays bare the brutal reality of what corrections departments are selling. Let’s be clear: the “action” they’re advertising isn’t about service or justice. It’s about violence. 🧵👇🏽

Every child deserves freedom. Every child deserves care. But the campaigning to raise the age asks us to settle—to accept that some kids can be thrown away while others are spared. I refuse to make that choice. I refuse to leave any child behind. 👇🏽🧵

Tired of hearing that more prisons mean safer communities? Let’s be real—cages don’t fix poverty, racism, or violence. They just warehouse the people most impacted by those issues. 👇🏽🧵

Governments always manage to find more money for more prisons. In the middle of a housing crisis, the Malinauskas government is pouring millions into prison expansion while people struggle to find a place to live. 👇🏽🧵

Another person has been stabbed in Yatala & what’s the union calling for? More prison officers (aka more $$ for officers) How about we start addressing why these harms are happening inside? How about we start a moratorium on new prison builds campaign?

Today is International Women’s Day and I’ll be speaking at an event about the invisibalisation of criminalised women from almost every area of women’s policy. So this IWD, why not throw your support behind criminalised women. Here’s some ideas for you: 🧵

Where are the calls to end violence against women in prison this International Women’s Day? Read this article by Debbie Kilroy and I: womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-d...

How on earth could Department for Correctional Services celebrate 25 years of a community corrections site in one of the most impoverished areas of the state? 🧵