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Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials

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Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials examines over a decade of Australia’s extensive anti-terrorism legislation, considering the rapid introduction and expansion of powers once reserved for wartime. The book offers a timely and critical analysis of the impact these laws have had on civil liberties, freedom of speech, and the press, as well as their effects on Australian democracy and the Muslim community. It questions the necessity and effectiveness of these laws and explores the broader implications of normalising such extraordinary legal measures.
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Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.

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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, Inside Australia's Anti-Terror Laws and Trials asks whether Australia really needed to enact anti-terrorism laws in the first place, let alone add to them. Do the new laws pose increased threats to freedom of speech and freedom of the press? Have these laws been effective in protecting the community, or do they represent a long-term threat to the health of Australian democracy? Which laws have proved their worth and which have not? And what has been the impact of the laws in Australia's anti-terrorism trials and on the Muslim community?

Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742231310

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2015

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 205.0mm

Weight: 278g

Pages: 200

About the Author

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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