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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806922403321

Autore

Lynch Andrew

Titolo

Inside Australia's anti-terrorism laws and trials / / Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity and George Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, Australia : , : NewSouth Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-74224-722-9

1-74224-195-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

344.05325

Soggetti

Terrorism - Prevention - Law and legislation - Australia

Terrorism - Prevention - Government policy - Australia

National security - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. What is a terrorist act?; 2. Criminalising terrorist acts and preparation for terrorism; 3. Terrorist organisations; 4. Terrorist financing; 5. Foreign incursions; 6. Prosecuting terrorist suspects; 7. Police powers; 8. Intelligence agencies; 9. Control orders; 10. Lessons; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over ten years after Australia's first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet 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 democracy except during wartime have become part of Australian law.Timely, piercing and in regard to the first set of laws, written with the benefit of hindsight, this book asks whether.