Mark Finnane
Biographic Data
| ID | 284644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Finnane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Finnane |
| SIGNATURE | FINNANE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3776-8091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historical crime and criminal justice classifications: Data and methodological considerations
This article reports on a large-scale historical criminology project to create longitudinal datasets of Australian prosecutorial data. We reflect on the decade-long process of digitization, transcription, classification, and aggregation that transformed hundreds of thousands of handwritten manuscript records into open-source, machine-readable data now readily available for analysis by researchers. Secondly, we explore the possibilities of develop…
The Last Outlaws: The Crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the Birth of Modern Australia
An atrocious crime’: Perjury on trial in colonial Australia
Sentencing an aged pensioner to nearly six years imprisonment for perjury in 1910, the Victorian Chief Justice denounced a man ‘as dangerous ... as the law could contemplate’. The prisoner had procured a number of others to give false evidence in a civil suit for libel launched by an ex-politician against another still serving in the Commonwealth Parliament. The denunciation expressed judicial abhorrence of what judges regarded as a detestable cr…
S.W. Griffith: A Suitable Case for Indictment
In his 2021 book ‘Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement’, Henry Reynolds called for an inquiry into the historical record of Samuel Walker Griffith, Federation ‘father’ and first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Reynolds’ iconoclasm targeted a historical figure whose name is memorialised in a Riverina town, a Canberra suburb and a Queensland university. Reynolds charged that Griffith was morally and politically …
Absolutely Free’? Freedom of Movement and ‘the Police Power’ in Federation Australia
In 2020, Australian businessman, Clive Palmer sued the Western Australian government over border restrictions imposed during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. In February 2021 the High Court unanimously rejected Palmer's action, concluding that the Emergency Powers Act was a valid exercise of State power in the circumstances of a public health pandemic. Among the precedents used by Palmer was a decision a century ago in which the High Co…
Governing in a Pandemic: Law and Government in Australia, 1919
The 1918–19 pneumonic influenza pandemic reached into mainland Australia in January 1919 and spread through the country over the next nine months. As a major public health emergency the pandemic proved to be a significant test of Australian governance. This article explores this history through attention to the imperial framing of Australian international and regional responses, the mechanisms of federal-state relations, the constitutional framew…
Clive Emsley (1944–2020)
Clive Emsley was a world-class historian, a pioneer in his field and the pre-eminent scholar of the history of policing and crime. His death on Tuesday 5 October 2020 at the age of 76 left a legacy
Character, Discipline, Law: Courts Martial in World War I
Courts martial were as ubiquitous in the experience of World War I as criminal courts in civil life, yet they remain largely neglected in the Australian war historiography. Their remarkable evidentiary record, transmitted from the field of battle into the custody of the Attorney-General, has been used to highlight wartime dimensions of individual character and collective discipline. In this article, we review the uses of the courts martial in tho…
What Counts? Essays from the Prosecution Project
A recent special issue of Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 47, 2016) considered the wide range of possibilities for ‘Big Data’ in historical research. There are very real challenges posed to historical research and researchers by the parallel expansion of big data’s companion, digital affordance. 1 Notwithstanding those challenges, this special issue on research from the Prosecution Project (https://prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/) embrace…
They were subject to our laws’: Aboriginal defendants in NSW courts 1850–1914
We now know a good deal about how Indigenous peoples came to be British legal subjects in settler colonised Australia. But we know very much less in any systematic way about the experience of Aboriginal accused, especially in the eastern half of Australia. A significant barrier to understanding the presence of Aboriginal defendants in colonial courts has been their common erasure from official statistics. Laborious historical investigation is ess…
A History of Now
The connection between history and COVID-19 might appear counter-intuitive. We are used to being told by media outlets and employers, government officials and friends that we are 'living in unprecedented times'. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the rhythms of our daily lives, but not every response to COVID-19 has been new. It has also been understood through history. This article comes from a roundtable discussion that was held as part of NSW H…
Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire." Australian Historical Studies, 50(4), pp. 534–535
Immigration and Criminality: Australia's Post‐War Inquiries
The relationship between immigration and crime rates has long been a topic of robust debate in criminology and sociology, especially for scholars of the United States. Researchers in those fields have highlighted divergent factors to explain high arrest rates including the presence of ethnic gangs, media reporting, racial profiling, over‐policing of immigrant communities, and wider issues of social dislocation brought about by migration. By contr…
Sharing the archive: Using web technologies for accessing, storing and re-using historical data
Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of the past. Quantitative historical analysis has been limited by researcher's reliance on rigid statistics collected by individuals or agencies, or else by researcher access to small samples of raw data. Even digital technologies by themselves have not been enough to overcome the challenges of working with manuscript sources and aligning dis-aggregate…
Every Mother’s Son Is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882–1905
The shocking cover of Chris Owen’s book tells a story and asks a question. A very large group of Aboriginal men, nearly 100, all prisoners in neck chains, are marshalled on the dusty ground in fron
British Migrants, Criminality and Deportation: Shaping the Australian Post-war Approach
The British preference of Australian immigration policy was challenged by the demands of a rapidly expanding post-war programme overseen by the newly established Department of Immigration. An essential function of the department was the screening of prospective migrants against criteria shaped by national population policy preferences. This paper examines Australia’s post-war immigration security screening policies in domestic and international c…
Defending the Accused: The Impact of Legal Representation on Criminal Trial Outcomes in Victoria, Australia 1861–1961
Access to legal representation by accused felons was entrenched as part of the adversarial system from the early nineteenth century, but a substantial minority of defendants remained undefended at superior court level well into the twentieth century. Using a sample of criminal trials collected across a crucial hundred-year period that saw the development of incipient legal assistance schemes, this article seeks to examine what effect the presence…
Access to Legal Representation by Criminal Defendants in Victoria, 1861–1961
Traditionally under the English legal system, prisoners charged with felonies had been denied the right to legal representation on the grounds that such assistance was superfluous, perhaps even harmful to the cause of justice.1 Jurist William Hawkins, writing in the early 18th century, declared that ‘it requires no manner of Skill to make a plain and honest Defence’, adding that the ‘artless and ingenuous Behaviour of one whose Conscience acquits…
Race and Justice in an Australian Court: Prosecuting Homicide in Western Australia, 1830–1954
Contemporary rates of incarceration of Indigenous peoples in Australia are generally seen as quite recent in origin, an unwanted outcome of the emergence of Indigenous people into full citizenship from the 1960s. Yet for only relatively short periods were Indigenous people in Australia excluded from the full implications of the rule of law in its mode of criminal jurisdiction; for the most part, they were considered British subjects. Having been …
The Prosecution Project: Understanding the Changing Criminal Trial Through Digital Tools
The Prosecution Project is a large-scale digital project that aims to provide a new way of exploring the context and impact of changes in the criminal trial during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so from an elementary platform: the digitization of the court calendars of criminal trials in the higher courts in the six main Australian jurisdictions over time periods as long as 130 years. The objective is to address questions of the …
Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts
The recent historiography of the Chinese in Australia has emphasised their vigorous formation of a local identity and community even in the face of recurrent and expand-ing threats of exclusion from colonial life. In their ready embrace of legal remedies to redress what they saw as discrimination or other harms, the Chinese were exemplar colonial settlers who looked to the law to protect them. In colonial appeal courts Chinese litigants challenge…
Police control systems in Britain, 1775–1975: From parish constable to national computer
Protest, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
The 1980s are long ago—a decade before most of the current generation of undergraduates were even born, and so deservedly a subject for historical inquiry and reflection. The decade was dominated i
Habeas Corpus Mongols’—Chinese Litigants and the Politics of Immigration in 1888
Prior to the Commonwealth's first major statute, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, Britain's colonies experimented with a range of statutory restrictions on population movement. When these came to affect the interests of Chinese-born residents of the colonies, the Chinese struck back. As in British Columbia and California, the Chinese of Victoria and New South Wales deployed law in asserting rights of movement and residence. When the Supre…
The Cambridge History of Australia
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history through to the Federation of the colonies in 1901. Volume 2 opens with the birth of the twentieth century, tracing developments in the nation through…
The Carrigan Committee of 1930-31 and the ‘moral condition of the Saorstát
The character of modern Ireland after partition has long been the subject of debate, by columnists, poets, novelists and historians. John Whyte’s outstanding study of the process by which what he called the ‘Catholic moral code’ became enshrined in the ‘law of the state’ summarised the ‘remarkable consensus’ achieved in the years 1923-37, a time when there was ‘overwhelming agreement that traditional Catholic values should be maintained, if neces…
The Uses of Punishment and Exile: Aborigines in Colonial Australia
The European settlement of Australia from 1788 was accompanied by a prolonged dis-possession of the indigenous people, who became British subjects at law. Regimes of punishment played an important role in this dispossession. Focusing on the colonies of latest settlement, Western Australia and Queensland, the evidence here suggests also that conventional modes of punishment were modified to accommodate indigenous offending. Public execution and co…
Payback’, Customary Law and Criminal Law in Colonised Australia
A decline in violence in Ireland ? Crime, policing and social relations, 1860-19141
The image of Ireland as a place of violence in the 19th and early 20th century draws much substance from the phenomena of agrarian and political conflict. A study of Irish crime statistics in the later 19th century (1860-1914) suggests however that Ireland like many other societies at the time enjoyed a secular decline in interpersonal violence.The study examines trends in police charges for a number of offences as well as data relating to suicid…
Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860
Journal Article Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860 Get access Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 272. £32.50. ISBN 978–0–520–24580–8. Mark Finnane Mark Finnane 1Griffith [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Schol…
Police corruption and police reform: The Fitzgerald inquiry in Queensland, Australia
The 1989 Fitzgerald Report in Queensland, Australia was one of the country's most far‐reaching investigations of police corruption and maladministration. Its recommendations, including measures to reorganize the police force and establish new modes of review of the criminal justice system, are made against a background of police reform in other States, including New South Wales and Victoria. The paper reviews the Report's findings in the context …
Censorship and the child: Explaining the comics campaign∗
Settler Justice and Aboriginal Homicide in Late Colonial Australia
This article examines the hidden history of criminal justice in late colonial Australia by focussing on Aboriginal inter-se offending. Most Aboriginal defendants appearing in late colonial criminal courts were prosecuted for violent crimes against other Aboriginal people. The frequent invocation of ‘custom’ commonly led juries to recommend the mercy of the Crown to those Aboriginal defendants found guilty of committing a homicide. I argue that ‘c…
Every Mother’s Son Is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882–1905
The shocking cover of Chris Owen’s book tells a story and asks a question. A very large group of Aboriginal men, nearly 100, all prisoners in neck chains, are marshalled on the dusty ground in fron
Defending the Accused: The Impact of Legal Representation on Criminal Trial Outcomes in Victoria, Australia 1861–1961
Access to legal representation by accused felons was entrenched as part of the adversarial system from the early nineteenth century, but a substantial minority of defendants remained undefended at superior court level well into the twentieth century. Using a sample of criminal trials collected across a crucial hundred-year period that saw the development of incipient legal assistance schemes, this article seeks to examine what effect the presence…
The Prosecution Project: Understanding the Changing Criminal Trial Through Digital Tools
The Prosecution Project is a large-scale digital project that aims to provide a new way of exploring the context and impact of changes in the criminal trial during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so from an elementary platform: the digitization of the court calendars of criminal trials in the higher courts in the six main Australian jurisdictions over time periods as long as 130 years. The objective is to address questions of the …
Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts
The recent historiography of Chinese in Australia has emphasised their vigorous formation of a local identity and community even in the face of recurrent and expanding threats of exclusion from colonial life. In their ready embrace of legal remedies to redress what they saw as discrimination or other harms, the Chinese were exemplar colonial settlers who looked to the law to protect them. In colonial appeal courts, Chinese litigants challenged mi…
You'll get nothing out of it'? The Inquest, Police and Aboriginal Deaths in Colonial Queensland
Colonisation in Australia entailed the establishment of legal institutions, but very often lagging the extension of the boundaries of settlement. As a common‐law institution of ancient lineage the inquest was an important means of exploring reasons for unexplained deaths, even leading to prosecutions. Yet the protections afforded by rule of law institutions were nugatory where they affected Aboriginal people in conflict with settler society, as s…
The Work of Policing: Social Relations and the Criminal Justice System in Queensland 1880-1914: Part I
Queensland has been seen as not only the heartland of labour but also of cultural uniformity and an 'authoritarianism, uninhibited by a middle-class liberal tradition'.1 This was especially so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when business interests dominated the Queensland parliament, particularly during the Premierships of Thomas Mcllwraith (1879-83,1888,1893) and Robert Philp (1899-1903,1907-08).2 One consequence of this au…
Asylums, Families and the State
In a review of recent work on institutionalisation, Michael Ignatieff (History Workshop Journal 15) has suggested that more attention needs to be paid to the role of the working class family in reconstructing the place of incarceration in modern societies. This should be part he argues, of a broader re-orientation of social history, which should start from the 'assumption that a society is a densely woven fabric of permissions, prohibitions, obli…
Sharing the archive: Using web technologies for accessing, storing and re-using historical data
Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of the past. Quantitative historical analysis has been limited by researcher's reliance on rigid statistics collected by individuals or agencies, or else by researcher access to small samples of raw data. Even digital technologies by themselves have not been enough to overcome the challenges of working with manuscript sources and aligning dis-aggregate…
Access to Legal Representation by Criminal Defendants in Victoria, 1861–1961
Traditionally under the English legal system, prisoners charged with felonies had been denied the right to legal representation on the grounds that such assistance was superfluous, perhaps even harmful to the cause of justice.1 Jurist William Hawkins, writing in the early 18th century, declared that ‘it requires no manner of Skill to make a plain and honest Defence’, adding that the ‘artless and ingenuous Behaviour of one whose Conscience acquits…
Race and Justice in an Australian Court: Prosecuting Homicide in Western Australia, 1830–1954
Contemporary rates of incarceration of Indigenous peoples in Australia are generally seen as quite recent in origin, an unwanted outcome of the emergence of Indigenous people into full citizenship from the 1960s. Yet for only relatively short periods were Indigenous people in Australia excluded from the full implications of the rule of law in its mode of criminal jurisdiction; for the most part, they were considered British subjects. Having been …
Protest, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
The 1980s are long ago—a decade before most of the current generation of undergraduates were even born, and so deservedly a subject for historical inquiry and reflection. The decade was dominated i
Deporting the Irish Envoys: Domestic and National Security in 1920s Australia
The 1923 deportation of two Irish republican envoys was a signal moment in the construction of Australian immigration policy, remembered more in legal than political history. The arrival of the Irish envoys, anti-treaty, anti-Free State and anti-British, provoked anxieties about imperial loyalty and domestic harmony. This article contextualises the role of the envoys as a performance of Irish republican politics in the dying stages of the Irish C…
Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier: The “Borroloola Case” in 1930s Australia
The dependence of colonization on police was a core feature both of settler colonies and of colonial dependencies, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the post–World War I decline of the British Empire. During this long century the functions and structures of colonial police were many and varied. We now know a good deal of their history and of their contribution to Empire. Much remains to be told of the slow processes of policing reform …
The Work of Policing: Social Relations and the Criminal Justice System in Queensland 1880-1914 Part II
The Fitzgerald Commission: Law, Politics and State Corruption in Queensland
The Popular Defence of Chidley
The appearance within the last few years of both a book and a play recalling the life of William James Chidley has resurrected, if not re solved, a number of questions about his career. Chidley's autobiography, edited by S. Mclnerney and published for the first time in 1977, is illuminating on the sex reformer's own life as well as on aspects of Aus tralian sexual and social life at the turn of the century. Readers of the autobiography will know …
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland
Asylums, Families and the State
In a review of recent work on institutionalisation, Michael Ignatieff (History Workshop Journal 15) has suggested that more attention needs to be paid to the role of the working class family in reconstructing the place of incarceration in modern societies. This should be part he argues, of a broader re-orientation of social history, which should start from the 'assumption that a society is a densely woven fabric of permissions, prohibitions, obli…
The Fitzgerald Commission: Law, Politics and State Corruption in Queensland
Policing in Australia. Historical Perspectives
Censorship and the child: Explaining the comics campaign∗
Police corruption and police reform: The Fitzgerald inquiry in Queensland, Australia
The 1989 Fitzgerald Report in Queensland, Australia was one of the country's most far‐reaching investigations of police corruption and maladministration. Its recommendations, including measures to reorganize the police force and establish new modes of review of the criminal justice system, are made against a background of police reform in other States, including New South Wales and Victoria. The paper reviews the Report's findings in the context …
After the convicts: Towards a history of imprisonment in Australia
In contrast to the detailed histories of the convict penal system in Australia before 1867, it is argued that there is much less known about imprisonment in this country in the subsequent 100 years. Some important phenomena in that period are addressed, in order to emphasise the diversity of prison regimes and prisoner experience. The article concludes by commenting on a number of different documents of prison life, to suggest how texts about the…
The Work of Policing: Social Relations and the Criminal Justice System in Queensland 1880-1914: Part I
Queensland has been seen as not only the heartland of labour but also of cultural uniformity and an 'authoritarianism, uninhibited by a middle-class liberal tradition'.1 This was especially so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when business interests dominated the Queensland parliament, particularly during the Premierships of Thomas Mcllwraith (1879-83,1888,1893) and Robert Philp (1899-1903,1907-08).2 One consequence of this au…
The Work of Policing: Social Relations and the Criminal Justice System in Queensland 1880-1914 Part II
A decline in violence in Ireland ? Crime, policing and social relations, 1860-19141
The image of Ireland as a place of violence in the 19th and early 20th century draws much substance from the phenomena of agrarian and political conflict. A study of Irish crime statistics in the later 19th century (1860-1914) suggests however that Ireland like many other societies at the time enjoyed a secular decline in interpersonal violence.The study examines trends in police charges for a number of offences as well as data relating to suicid…
Police Unions in Australia: A History of the Present
2In the fading years of the century police unions have never been more powerful and significant. The flexing of muscle in the protest meetings of Victorian police against structural changes in policing was a striking reminder this year of their power to attract notice and challenge administrations and government. Yet police unions have been a subject of little interest to Australian scholars of criminal justice, or even of industrial relations1. …
Payback’, Customary Law and Criminal Law in Colonised Australia
The Uses of Punishment and Exile: Aborigines in Colonial Australia
The European settlement of Australia from 1788 was accompanied by a prolonged dis-possession of the indigenous people, who became British subjects at law. Regimes of punishment played an important role in this dispossession. Focusing on the colonies of latest settlement, Western Australia and Queensland, the evidence here suggests also that conventional modes of punishment were modified to accommodate indigenous offending. Public execution and co…
The Carrigan Committee of 1930-31 and the ‘moral condition of the Saorstát
The character of modern Ireland after partition has long been the subject of debate, by columnists, poets, novelists and historians. John Whyte’s outstanding study of the process by which what he called the ‘Catholic moral code’ became enshrined in the ‘law of the state’ summarised the ‘remarkable consensus’ achieved in the years 1923-37, a time when there was ‘overwhelming agreement that traditional Catholic values should be maintained, if neces…
Just like a ‘nun's picnic’? Violence and colonisation in Australia
(2003). Just like a ‘nun's picnic’? Violence and colonisation in Australia. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 299-305
Norval Morris (1923–2004)
(2004). Norval Morris (1923–2004) Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 267-271
You'll get nothing out of it'? The Inquest, Police and Aboriginal Deaths in Colonial Queensland
Colonisation in Australia entailed the establishment of legal institutions, but very often lagging the extension of the boundaries of settlement. As a common‐law institution of ancient lineage the inquest was an important means of exploring reasons for unexplained deaths, even leading to prosecutions. Yet the protections afforded by rule of law institutions were nugatory where they affected Aboriginal people in conflict with settler society, as s…
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
Books
Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality. By John Chesterman. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005. Pp. 357. $22.95 paper. Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity. By Jill Julius Matthews. Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. Pp. 342. $32.95 paper. Conciliation, Compulsion, Conversion: British Attitudes to Indigenous Peoples 1763–1814. By Merete Falck Borch. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. Pp. 320. US$43 pap…
Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860
Journal Article Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860 Get access Akihito Suzuki, Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England, 1820–1860, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 272. £32.50. ISBN 978–0–520–24580–8. Mark Finnane Mark Finnane 1Griffith [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Schol…
The ABC of Criminology
The arrival of criminology as an academic discipline was a post-war development in Australia as much as in Britain or the United States. Classical criminology had developed as a question about punishment-neo-classical criminology as a question about the criminal. Academic criminology pursued both questions and added others. Less systematic than pragmatic, less theoretical than eclectic, the criminology of post-war universities was both intellectu…
The English Have no Altruism’: J. V. Barry and Irish Identity in Twentieth Century Australia
The stereotyped transition of the Irish in Australia from rebellious dissenters to respectable citizens glosses an abiding sense of difference that was reproduced down the generations of Irish-Australians. Exploring these tensions in the personal biography of John Vincent Barry, a prominent judge, intellectual and civil libertarian of the mid-twentieth century, offers an unusual opportunity to assess what it meant to be of second or third generat…
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
No longer a ‘workingman’s paradise’? Australian police unions and political action in a changing industrial environment
The prospects of engaging police unions in a process of police reform is conditioned by the political context and organisational culture that characterises those unions. Understanding the historical formation of unions and the changing nature of their aspirations and interests is critical to appreciating such prospects. The history of Australian police unions, long established and privileged by high levels of acceptance in their political environ…
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