Research Catalog

Title

Terror laws : ASIO, counter-terrorism, and the threat to democracy / Jenny Hocking.

Author

Hocking, Jenny.

Publication

Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 288 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Civil rights > Australia
• Internal security > Australia
• Australian Security Intelligence Organization
• Terrorism > Government policy > Australia
• Terrorism > Australia > Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-279) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / George Williams -- Preface: Rattling the authoritarian cage -- 1. 'Terrorism' and the politics of language -- 2. The development of Australia's internal security arrangements -- 3. From 'subversion' to 'terrorism' -- 4. Counter-terrorism as counter-insurgency -- 5. The importance of being 'terrorism' -- 6. Counter-terrorism's first wave -- 7. Terrorism in Australia -- 8. The renewal of counter-subversion -- 9. Policing terrorism -- 10. Securing the state -- 11. The second wave -- 12. From intelligence to internment -- 13. Terrorism, counter-terrorism and democracy -- App. I. The 1949 charter of ASIO -- App. II. The 1950 charter of ASIO -- App. III. Order by the Governor-General to call out the Army -- App. IV. Definition of 'terrorist act'

ISBN

086840702X

OCLC

53902658

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library