Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials, 9781742231310
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Are Australia’s anti-terror laws protecting us, or threatening democracy?

Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials

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    200 pages

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    2 March 2015

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Summary

Unmasking Security: An Examination of Australia’s Anti-Terror Laws

Over ten years after Australia’s first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, even more anti-terrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. The first laws were often introduced in great haste and were stunning in scope and number. The latest laws are similarly extensive and controversial. Yet again, powers and sanctions once thought to lie outside the rules of a liberal d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742231310
ISBN-10:1742231314
Author:Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams
Publisher:NewSouth Publishing
Imprint:NewSouth Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:2 March 2015
Weight:278g
Dimensions:205mm x 137mm x 20mm
About The Author

Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch teaches and researches in the field of Australian constitutional law. He is the author of Australian Constitutional Law and Theory and What Price Security? Taking Stock of Australia’s Anti-Terror Laws.

Nicola McGarrity is a lecturer in the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales. She directs the Terrorism Law Reform Project in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She is the author of Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9⁄11 and Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism.

George Williams is one of Australia’s leading constitutional lawyers and public commentators. He is the Anthony Mason Professor, a scientia professor, and the foundation director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales. He has written and edited numerous books, including Australian Constitutional Law and Theory and The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia. He practices as a lawyer and is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald.

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