Dr Thalia Anthony is a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She researches the impacts of colonial laws on First Nations communities, criminal law procedures and incarceration. Professor Anthony works with Aboriginal people in prison and communities to build collective strengths outside of the carceral system. She has conducted research on Indigenous sentencing courts and the incorporation of Indigenous laws. She is the co-Chair of Deadly Connections Community Justice Services and collaborates with Aboriginal Legal Services to introduce individualised reports on culture and colonisation in sentencing. In 2024, Professor Anthony was awarded the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Indigenous Justice Award and the Engagement Australia Excellence in Indigenous Engagement Award. Her research is published in Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment (Routledge, 2013), Decolonising Criminology (with Blagg, Palgrave 2019) and Unsettling Colonial Automobility (with Sherwood, Blagg and Tranter, Emerald 2023). Professor Anthony’s research is cited in UN documents, Supreme Court decisions and parliamentary debates. She has been listed three times by The Conversation as Australia’s Top 50 Public Intellectuals.