Tabitha Lean
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Tabitha (or as her ancestors know her, Budhin Mingaan) is a Gunditjmara woman living on Boandik country. Tabitha is a story teller and abolition activist who argues that the criminal punishment system is a brutal and often deadly colonial frontier for her people and uses her lived prison experience to fight for the total abolition of the prison industrial complex.