Emma

I've had this recently too! I couldn't come at signing on to my own obsolescence

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.

This afternoon in Naarm/Melbourne! Snap action rally for Poccum's Law at 4.30pm on Parliament Steps #bailsaveslives

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.

@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-...

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...

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...

"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:

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

This is cruel and nonsensical.

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

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...

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...

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

Chris Minns’ youth bail laws are working. The laws are designed to incarcerate presumptively innocent children.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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.

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...

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

C Justice - Report on Government Services 2025 Part C includes performance reporting for Police services, Courts and Corrective services.

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...

“… 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, ...

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...

"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.

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!

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.

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

"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...

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.

Repping for the stellar research team @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work + Andrew Burridge, speaking on our article in @theconversation.com last week:

theconversation.com/prisons-dont...

Screenshot of Triple R Breakfasters upcoming program on 28 January, including Emma Russell on the business of prison expansion in Australia

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

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

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.

"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."