RAD Faction

Beyond one man, one seat, one election cycle, there is a larger and far more unsettling question taking shape in real time: what is the state asking of people who have not been found guilty of any crime, but are…radfaction.com.au/2026/01/19/an-…

Peter Malinauskas' Comments on Adelaide Writers' Week. Listen to or watch the full episode here: linktr.ee/partylinepod

Stella Magnisalis can still remember the shock of the first time her SA police officer boyfriend “exploded with rage” and hurt her. Today, she tells her story.

This is how the carceral state reproduces itself: by recruiting young people early, before they have the tools to question power & violence. Framed as “opportunity,” this program is really about securing loyalty to policing before political consciousness has a chance to form 🧵

"While police receive cash bonuses and accelerated recruitment pipelines, ambulances are still being ramped at our public hospitals. "While the government fast-tracks police academy courses, people are dying on hospital waiting lists. radfaction.com.au/2026/01/09/cas… @haveachattabs

“The Premier is not responding to rising harm; he is campaigning. This is the law-and-order gravy train in full motion: talk tough, build cages, expand police power, and dare anyone to argue for less punishment in an election year. radfaction.com.au/2026/01/06/cri…

"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: radfaction.com.au/2026/01/03/a-c… @haveachattabs

"Over the New Year period, the SA Government quietly transformed Adelaide’s entire public transport network into a permanent police search zone. Police have been gagging for these powers for years." Article by Dan Vansetten and myself on @RADFaction radfaction.com.au/2026/01/01/pol…

“Next Time It Could Be a Handgun”: How Fear Does the State’s Work for It Hysteria manufactured after prison drone incident. See article by Tabitha Lean & Dan Vansetten here: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/30/nex…

Is This the Australia We Want? Armed forces patrolling our streets? See article by Tabitha Lean & Dan Vansetten here: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/29/is-…

When the State Calls This “Safety,” We Should Ask Who Its Really For See article by Tabitha Lean & Dan Vansetten here: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/26/whe…

When the State Calls It Terror, We Should Ask Who It Is Really Protecting See article by Tabitha Lean & Dan Vansetten here: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/24/whe…

Chasing the Carrot: Cooperating with the State for Revocable Benefits See article by Tabitha Lean & Dan Vansetten here: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/17/cha…

When Workers Strike, Prisoners Pay: Adelaide’s Lockdowns Reveal the Machinery of the Carceral State See article here: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/12/whe…

Prison Labour, Union Wages, and the Modern Slavery Australia Refuses to See See article: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/11/pri…

State Violence Upon Prisoners for Wage Rise “7 prisons across South Australia (SA) were today locked down for the third day straight as prison officers under the Public Service Association (PSA) strike for a wage rise.” See full article: radfaction.com.au/2025/12/10/sta…

@haveachattabs Considering the well known fact about the over-representation of First Nations people in prison, it appears that those who could make an exception, to allow those in jail to vote, really don’t get it..

For the 1st time in my adult life, i am considering abstaining from voting because i honestly feel like i cannot make an educated, informed vote that sits well with me, added to that i am furious mob in prison cant vote (if their sentence is more than 3 years) - any thoughts?

Qu. for mob only: I am no to the Voice right now, but the whacko NO mob are scaring the shit out of me, and now i am almost scared of voting No because my No vote will be counted in the same vein as their NO vote

@AequoEtBono … or an entree of ‘es-cart-go’.

It is bad enough when French prisoners are given carte blanche - it is even worse when they get kart blanche as well: bbc.com/news/world-eur…

@AequoEtBono Maybe someone should have evoked the ‘sticks and stones’ principle!

You keep using that word "pumpkin" - I do not think it means what Judge Vasta thinks it means (a meaning so disgusting that it required an annexure, lest it sully the main judgment): classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodi… #auslaw