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Opinion | Criminalised women — especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women — already face steep hurdles when applying for a clearance after prison. crikey.com.au/2025/07/08/jos…

@DebKilroy and my new article in @crikey_news about the calls for stricter working with children checks Please have a read and consider this when you’re calling for stricter measures

Opinion | The allegation that Joshua Brown sexually abused children in 20 Melbourne childcare centres has sparked calls for stricter Working With Children Checks. But this will have adverse effects, write @haveachattabs and @DebKilroy. crikey.com.au/2025/07/08/jos…

NT Government Expands Use of Private Prison Guards: A Dangerous Escalation in the War Against Aboriginal Communities. @NNetworkAu thenationalnetwork.com.au/nt-government-…

Advocates say 'missing' Queensland children are symptom of a broken care system. nit.com.au/23-07-2025/192…

There’s nothing “unique” or fun about prison. This event makes a spectacle of our suffering, inviting people to dress up and play prisoner while we’re still fighting to survive the real thing. Let’s have a yarn about that.

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, @CraigOGilmore @lydiajean8 & @judahschept inquest.org/abolitionist-l…

I keep seeing people say “Gazans need therapy”. Traumatised people need SAFETY. They don’t need a counsellor w/a clip board they need homes, food, aunties, joy. That will heal them. I didn’t know how to verbalise this till I met @DebKilroy & saw the work she does w the families-

“Labelling children as “serious young offenders” does not make communities safer — it just sets more kids up to be caged, brutalised and discarded.” Read the @NNetworkAu press release on our website

As outlined at paragraphs 208-210 of the coroner's findings, ICRR & Dr Amanda Porter were jointly commissioned by NAAJA to write an expert report for the Inquest into Kumanjayi Walker’s death.

Read this latest article by @DebKilroy and @haveachattabs

The Queensland Police Service has confirmed, in black and white, what criminalised women, girls, and communities have been shouting for years: Queensland’s watch houses are sites of systemic human rights abuse. thenationalnetwork.com.au/the-queensland…

Queensland police investigated their own police watch houses - holding cells where children as young as 11 are held. What they found was troubling. ow.ly/m3Mc50Wo94K

Blood, rats, self-harm: disturbing truth about police cells where children are held A review into Qlds police watch houses has made troubling findings….children being indecently exposed to adult prisoners. sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/…

Read this latest article by myself and @DebKilroy in @WomensAgenda “There is something chilling in the way the media has treated Patterson—not just as a “murderer”, but as something else entirely” womensagenda.com.au/latest/funghi-…

“When we respond to young people in need with guns instead of care, and with charges instead of choices, we are not protecting communities—we are abandoning them.” Read this new article by @DebKilroy and myself in @NatIndigTimes nit.com.au/09-07-2025/190…

Cleveland spent more than 22 hours a day in his cell for 74 of the 86 days he was detained in Unit 18 before he self-harmed, he said. Over that period, he had 4 hours of recreation time, equating to about 3 minutes a day. theguardian.com/australia-news…

"Since police have come around and started doing that to my young fellas, they haven't left the house … and if they were to leave the house, they would have to be with myself in the car, so they're not feeling scared of the police." abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…