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Terror Laws: Asio, Counter-Terrorism and the Threat to Democracy
Jenny Hocking
Paperback. University of New South Wales Pre 2003-10-01.
ISBN 9780868407029
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The civil liberties landscape in Australia has changed irrevocably since Bali and September 11, with some of the most draconian counter-terrorism measures in the western world. Once-sacrosanct civil and political rights--freedom of expression, freedom of association, protection from arbitrary detention, the right to independent legal advice--have been tossed aside in the name of the "war on terror." This book questions whether we can protect ourselves by removing the very freedoms that define a democracy.
In Terror Laws, Jenny Hocking traces the extraordinary expansion of Australia's internal security, from the hesitant formation of ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Service) barely fifty years ago to the powerful, unfettered, counter-terrorism network that now reaches into every corner of Australians' lives
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