Tue 24 Nov · 6:30pm
The Wheeler Centre · Melbourne
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Flick Chafer-Smith and Meena Singh discuss the human, economic and societal consequences of Victoria's soaring incarceration rates.
As Victoria's prison population grows, recent efforts to address crime have focused on tougher consequences. Can punishment alone deliver safer communities? What does it mean for people caught in the criminal justice system and for those working on its frontline?
Ngarrindjeri artist Flick Chafer-Smith draws on her personal experience of incarceration and her work with The Torch, which provides cultural and arts industry support to First Nations people in, or recently released, from Victorian prisons. Meena Singh is Professor of Practice at Monash Law & the former Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children & Young People.
They'll examine approaches to crime & punishment, asking: Are they actually making our communities safer? Hosted by Maggie Munn, First Nations Justice Director of Human Rights Law Centre.
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When is Causes and Consequences: Victoria’s Mass Imprisonment Crisis?
Tue 24 Nov 2026, 6:30pm.
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The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, VIC.
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