Tahlia is the founder of Project:herSELF (projectherself.org.au) and brings both professional expertise and lived experience to the Australian conversation on women and the criminal justice system. Formerly incarcerated herself, she went onto complete degrees in business and criminology following her release. Today she is a wife, mother of two, and a powerful advocate for women's basic rights in prison. Project:herSELF delivers a structured release program and one-on-one peer mentoring, and is the only service-delivery social enterprise in Australia that employs exclusively women with conviction histories. This is her recent address to the National Press Club of Australia.
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May 26, 2026
6:00 pm
AEST (UTC+10:00)
ComplexitySalon is delighted to host Professor Laura Abbott from the UK and Tahlia Isaac from Australia, who will share their research and experiences relating to women and children navigating the justice systems. Together, they will explore how power operates at the margins of society, and what these experiences reveal about our humanity, our institutions, and the values we choose to uphold.
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