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Title: Detention Without Trial--a Threat to Democratic Rights.
Author : University of Western Sydney Law Review
Release Date : January 01, 2005
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 274 KB

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Introduction A series of decisions by the High Court of Australia upholding, and arguably considerably extending, the power of the executive government to detain people without trial has generated serious concerns about the impact of these rulings on basic democratic rights and civil liberties. Although the decisions, handed down in late 2004, involved immigration detention, concerns have been registered about the wider implications of these decisions for the 'war on terrorism'. (1)