Degrading and Managing Risk: Assessing Australia's Counter-Terrorist Strategy

O’Neil, Andrew

doi:10.1080/10361140701513596

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“…through the Joint Parliamentary Committee on ASIO (after 1988) and the Inspector-General of Intelligence Services (after 1987). While it is not the place here to review the impact of this changed environment on the operations and accountability of ASIO and other security agencies, one cannot ignore the impact of such developments on the generation of a security and policing apparatus that is more 'governmental' than executive in its functioning [56].…”

Section: Policing Transformations In the World Of Counter-terrorismmentioning

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The public rhetorics of policing in times of war and violence: countering apocalyptic visions

Finnane

2008

Crime Law Soc Change

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Public debate about post 9/11 policing presumes for the most part that the world changed fundamentally at that point and that policing powers and tactics have altered in response. For some people, largely defenders of the necessity of a strong security stance, the changes have been possibly not enough. For others, opponents of the security state, the changes represent a latest instalment in an always threatening rise of totalitarian policing. Seen in macro-perspective these views represent the politics of security, helping to shape, modulate, contain, expand, limit the powers available to police, and the possible uses of them. These opposing views, very often highly antagonistic in expression, are part of the politics, and do not stand outside them. They have also been heard before. In seeking to understand what policing means for stable societies under threat of political violence, this article examines some key transitions in the development of security policing over the last 100 years in Australia, highlighting some of the contextual features that have shaped them. In doing so it will suggest that apocalyptic rhetoric is part of the politics of policing, shared by both advocates and opponents of tougher policing, and in tension with the more sober realities of a policing that operates within a framework of enabling as well as limiting conditions.

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Section: Policing Transformations In the World Of Counter-terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The public rhetorics of policing in times of war and violence: countering apocalyptic visions

Finnane

2008

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…That at least is the case in Australia, judging by review of the literature over the last 40 years. In spite of the great importance of the topic in the considerations of government during this time (as we will see) the disciplines of government, politics or political science have displayed only limited interest, and generally in the area of international relations more than political studies concerned with the processes of government, public policy and domestic political relations (Jones, 2010a(Jones, , 2010bMcDonald, 2007;O'Neil, 2005O'Neil, , 2007. History too has been little concerned to attend to the matterthe depth of contributions on the conflict and violence of colonial settlement contrasts with the thinness of the literature dealing with the twentieth century history of political violence as it affected Australia (Brawley, 2009;Koschade, 2007;Rawson, 1968;Turner, 1969).…”

Section: The Subject Of Terrorismmentioning

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Terrorism and government: Between history and criminology

Finnane

2013

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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Incontestably the decade since 9/11 has been the pre-eminent age of terrorism. Or has it? In this lecture we consider terrorism as an object of government and of academic research. In arguing that law and criminology have been the pre-eminent disciplines attending to governmental responses to terrorism we note that their interventions have been significant in both their critical stance and in their impact in shaping discourse about the tactics and limits of counter-terrorism, particularly legislation and its uses. But what understanding of the broader role of government in responding to terrorism emerges from such a literature? And what histories are available to inform such an understanding? Existing historical accounts of Australian security and intelligence as a response to political violence and terrorism are for the most part dominated by Cold War politics and ideology, especially through their preoccupation with the politics of intelligence organisations. Increasing availability of security archives, together with a more international view of the context of Australian counter-terrorism histories, provide a sounder base for assessing the emergence of terrorism as an object of government attention since the 1970s.

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“…The new legislative measures involved expanded intelligence gathering and police powers, and an increase in the range of preventive detention and control orders that can be applied to terrorist suspects. The anti-terrorist legislation increased the powers of the State and federal police forces and security agencies such as the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to monitor, detain and charge suspected terrorists (see Goulder and Williams 2006;O'Neil 2007).…”

Section: Countering the Threat Of Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%