Incredibly brave evidence this morning from women and men who have survived brutal strip searches in youth jails - a tool for social control, to humiliate and degrade - and disproportionately used against First Nations young people
An investigation is underway after an Aboriginal man died following a medical emergency at Alice Springs Correctional Centre. The prisoner collapsed on Tuesday evening and was transported to Hospital.
#Justice#FirstNations#IndigenousAustralia
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We spend so much of our lives fighting the systems that punish us — but abolition is also about what we build with each other.
About being together, laughing, crying, remembering and telling stories.
It’s about love and loving each other. 🩷🩷
#freeher#sistersinside
So bloody wrong 🤬
"A young woman has died while entirely under the control of the state and, before the public is invited to consider the circumstances of her death, we throw to the allegations against her." Debbie Kilroy & Tabitha Lean
"Feminism has long challenged the idea that there are good women who deserve protection and bad women who do not. Yet prison remains one of the places where that binary is most powerfully reproduced, and where feminist resistance to it is often weakest."
removing a child from their family community & Country does not become progressive b/c the government calls it a Circuit Breaker
There is nothing innovative about removing children Australia has been doing that for generations
The truly radical circuit breaker would be to stop
removing a child from their family community & Country does not become progressive b/c the government calls it a Circuit Breaker
There is nothing innovative about removing children Australia has been doing that for generations
The truly radical circuit breaker would be to stop
Women imprisoned by the state retain the right to bodily autonomy. Yet when they report sexual violence by employees of the prison system, it is often the women, not the institution, who are forced to prove their credibility.
#freeher
The 2026 National NAIDOC Awards winners have been announced, with Arrernte and Gurdanji woman Aunty Pat Turner AO named NAIDOC Person of the Year.
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NSW Police are appealing for help to find missing Aboriginal woman Nicole Fisher, 35, who was last seen in North Tamworth on Friday afternoon.
https://t.co/Q9GBGjWFbl