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...

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???

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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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-...

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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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:

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

The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial)@smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 2y ago

📢 The City of Port Phillip is considering fines for rough sleeping to fight crime, raising concerns from councillors about making homelessness illegal.

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...

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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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...

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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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.

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 2y ago

The fallout from Sam Kerr’s UK court case, for racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, could have far-reaching ramifications.

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

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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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...

C Justice - Report on Government Services 2025

Part C includes performance reporting for Police services, Courts and Corrective services.

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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...

“… 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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"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.

Crikey@crikey.com.au · 2y ago

Opinion | "My Asian, African and Aboriginal ABC colleagues are now on notice: complain about something to do with your race and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility the ABC will ask you to prove you have a race in the first place." @janfran.bsky.social Read it: www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/04/a...

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!

Sarah Schwartz@sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 2y ago

My article in @theguardian.com about how Peter Dutton uses the Jewish community as political footballs to spread bigotry, which makes us all less safe. Murdoch, you can’t stop me from calling out Dutton and the LNP for fueling racism! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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

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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"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

Jewish Council of Australia@jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Help defend our anti-racist works against offensive smear campaigns by the Murdoch Press

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."

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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