Disposable Human

A Cage Is Still a Cage – No Matter How New the Paint Photo: Dan Vansetten In early December, the NSW Inspector of Custodial Services tabled a report in state parliament that should have shocked the conscience of the nation, though, predictably, it di…

"Every new prison built locks in decades of imprisonment, expands the state’s capacity to cage, and guarantees that more people … will be funneled into confinement rather than supported”

Check our latest article:

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This is a refusal list.

A rejection of the systems that keep harm alive while calling it safety.

For 2026 and every year after, let’s choose abolition, work to end poverty, and collective survival over punishment and control.
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“Next Time It Could Be a Handgun”: How Fear Does the State’s Work for It Photo: ABC News “Next time, it could be a handgun.” The phrase appeared almost immediately after reports that a drone had delivered contraband into South Australia’s largest prison. It was not offe…

“There is, of course, no evidence that firearms are being flown into Adelaide’s prisons by drone. None was required. Because fear does something evidence cannot: it collapses scrutiny.”

Full article by myself & Dan Vansetten on RAD Faction

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When the State Calls It Terror, We Should Ask Who It Is Really Protecting Courtesy of ABC In the aftermath of the Bondi attack, which claimed the lives of 15 people, political language moved swiftly. The event was described as a “terror attack.” Calls for a royal commiss…

“The undercover personas told the child that plans to kill an AFP officer were “a good plan”. They told him he would make a good sn1per or su1cide b0mber. They reinforced his fixation and actively escalated his thinking.”
By myself and Dan Vansetten:
radfaction.com.au/2025/12/24/w...

New 'street gang' laws set to allow control orders on children for association alone.
These new harsh laws targeting children are also condemned.
Check out these and more at: https:// radfaction.com.au/resources/
#abolition #acab #humanrights

My version of the Night Before Christmas - prison style

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“…As it stands, Vlassakis now faces a real prospect of life in prison. Not accepted by his peers. Constantly fearing an attack. Probably asking himself, why did I chase the carrot?”

It never works out for anyone who “cooperates” with the state.

radfaction.com.au/2025/12/17/c...

In the wake of the violence at Bondi, I’ve been thinking about how we talk about harm, responsibility and safety - and the language we reach for in moments of grief.

Read my latest article in Rad Faction, discussing prison labour, union wages, and the modern slavery Australia refuses to see.

radfaction.com.au/2025/12/11/p...

Some people say they’re abolitionists until life asks them to actually practice it.

If cops can be suspended WITH PAY while being investigated for killing Blak fullas, then every other person suspected of a crime can continue to receive their welfare payments
FFS

Who needs horror movies when we have MyGov, gammin abolitionists, and Centrelink hold music?
Welcome to the haunted house- no jump scares, just structural violence.

Time to spill the tea

We practice abolition in the tiny moments, in the quiet rebellions: asking the real question, staying for the long answer, holding space for messy humanity.

These lines are little offerings, soft weapons against a world that wants us hardened & silent.
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I want to say something clearly. If you come to my page thinking you’re “outing” me or exposing my criminal record, you’re not revealing anything new. What you are revealing is how comfortable you are reproducing the punishment logic of the state.

I talk about how charity & carceral logic collide, so let’s look at this post by @SecondChancesSA

When an organisation that claims to support children of people in prison starts posting name & shame content, with sirens & surveillance stills, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s harm.
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Beyond punishment and restrictive practices, calls for a more caring society *** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and references to people who have died

“This language of “care” & “safety” has become the moral cover for violence. These are sites built on control, warehouses for those our society has deemed too old, too “mad”, too disabled, or too dangerous to be free.”

www.croakey.org/beyond-punis...

Prisons don’t solve poverty; they sustain it. They strip people of everything, profit from their labour, and then release them back into deeper poverty.

Let’s start talking about the economic and moral cost of funding punishment instead of care.
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As Anti-Poverty Week unfolds, we need to talk about the part of poverty the public conversation always avoids: the prison system.

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Heyyyyy everyone in Adelaide
Please join me this weekend to make/write Christmas cards for people in prison this Christmas 🎄
It’s a drop in session, so come for an hour or come for the whole session. All materials provided.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

What’s left out are the intersections: race, class, gender, disability, and criminalisation. I’d really like us to start talking about what gets erased when we keep talking about poverty without complexity, and about why that erasure matters.
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