Tough on crime – can we get to safety through prison?

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Tahlia Isaac Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6pm A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: Tough on crime – can we get to safety through prison? Australia was built as a penal colony on the idea that people could change. So how did we end up celebrating "tough on crime" politics instead? Today we imprison children, the number of women behind bars is growing faster than any other group, and incarceration has become a revolving door rather than a pathway to safety. This session explores how fear, politics and the social contract have shaped our justice system - from colonisation to today - and asks whether punishment has come at the expense of the very thing it promises: safer communities. Your Speaker: Tahlia Isaac Tahlia Isaac is formerly incarcerated criminologist and is the founder of Project herself and author of She is Me. Tahlia’s work centres on advocating for womens rights in the justice system and is passionate about justice system redesign.