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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This incredible and important edited volume on the centrality of empire and colonialism in the history of policing from @dukepress.bsky.social comes out on November 3. I have a chapter in it about the colonial and international origins of fingerprinting. www.dukeupress.edu/imperial-ent...
A red book cover with a ripped chain link fence. The text reads: Imperial Entanglements of Policing edited by Julian Go and Stuart Schrader.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 17/03/2026
In the new TMK, our immortal analysis is once again validated! We talk about two big studies into the effects of AI on workloads, which show with in-depth empirical detail how AI intensifies and expands labor, rather than lightens and shrinks workloads. Weird! Did anybody know this would happen???
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449. Efficiently Drowning in Work
TMK thought validated yet again! We talk about two big studies into the effects of AI on workloads, which show with in-depth empirical detail how AI intensifies and expands labor, rather than lightens
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Emma @emmrus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This afternoon in Naarm/Melbourne! Snap action rally for Poccum's Law at 4.30pm on Parliament Steps #bailsaveslives
Promotional poster with details of snap action for Poccum's Law in Naarm (Melbourne) on Tuesday 18 March, 4.30pm on Parliament Steps. Background image is a protest rally including a hand-made placard with the text 'Most Incarcerated People on Earth' atop an Aboriginal flag.
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Emma @emmrus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@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-...
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Why is tabloid media writing Victoria's bail laws? - Right Now
The Victorian Premier's so-called 'Tough Bail Laws' is regressive reform that represents weak-willed politics, says Monique Hurley and Dr Emma Russell.
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Human Rights Law Centre @humanrightshrlc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"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:
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Showing what really matters to us: on Australia’s continuing failure to honour the UN Convention Against Torture - Overland literary journal
So why have there been no — or only limited — moves to implement the bare minimum obligations pursuant to the OPCAT? The answer appears to be a lack of political will and a dangerous disregard for the...
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Nat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Criminalising poverty to 'fight crime', thereby creating a crime people cannot help but commit. Crime machine goes brrr. This is cruel and nonsensical.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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...
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More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows
‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Chris Minns’ youth bail laws are working. The laws are designed to incarcerate presumptively innocent children. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Number of NSW children in youth detention up by one third, new data shows
As Minns government seeks to extend controversial laws that make it harder for young people to get bail, experts warn locking up more kids will not curb crime
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Nat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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?
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Megan McElhone @meganmcelhone.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My new article for The Conversation.
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
An open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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Open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah - Overland literary journal
We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of Ma...
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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...
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C Justice - Report on Government Services 2025
Part C includes performance reporting for Police services, Courts and Corrective services.
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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...
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“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology
This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...
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Emma @emmrus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"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...
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Granting bail saves lives: Premier’s review shows blatant disregard for Aboriginal communities
Premier Allan’s announcement of a premature review into Victoria’s bail law reforms is proof that her Government cares more about polling numbers than keeping our communities safe.  Only 10 months ...
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Jan Fran @janfran.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Look ma, I'm finally white.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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?
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A must read from our EO, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social Murdoch, we won’t let you silence our anti-racism work!
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Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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
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Queensland government halts hormone treatment for new trans patients under 18
Health Minister Tim Nicholls unveiled the pause on Tuesday as he also announced a review into the evidence for stage one and two hormone therapies for children with gender dysphoria.
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Australian Human Rights Institute @austhumanrights.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"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...
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Emma @emmrus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
Screenshot of Triple R Breakfasters upcoming program on 28 January, including Emma Russell on the business of prison expansion in Australia
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We’re not going to back down.
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Emma @emmrus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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
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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Statement on my speech at a comedy event pillorying Peter Dutton’s racist, ignorant and monolithic conception of Jewish people
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derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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
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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"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."
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Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.
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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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Nat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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!
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Emma @emmrus.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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
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Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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...
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Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 22/01/2025
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.
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Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/11/2024
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.
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We Grow the World Together
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swelteringcities.bsky.social @swelteringcities.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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...
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NT Government must act: Women transferred to Darwin Prison facing dangerous heat and overcrowding
In Darwin, every day of the last two weeks has reached temperatures over 34°. Those temperatures could make anyone unwell, but imagine if you were in overcrowded accommodation, or even stuck outside w...
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Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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