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By Mark Bahnisch on July 27, 2009
From today’s Crikey: There has been a certain feeling in the air of deja vu over the past fortnight in Queensland. The jailing of a former Minister, allegations that government was far too close to business, a government sinking rapidly [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Crime, Media, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Anna Bligh, anniversary, Armed Robbery Squad, Bligh government, civil liberties, CJC, CMC, corruption, Courier-Mail, Crime, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Gordon Nuttall, Griffith University, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, malfeasance, Media, police culture, political culture, Queensland police, Queensland politics, Quentin Dempster, Terry O'Gorman, Tony Fitzgerald, transparency |
By Kim on December 2, 2008
On Lateline tonight, the point was made that other police agencies failed to share information with Queensland Police before the Fitzgerald Inquiry because it was demonstrated that such intelligence was leaked or sold to suspects. Can it be too difficult [...]
Posted in Crime, Politics, Victoria | Tagged Bracks, Bracks government, corruption, Fitzgerald Inquiry, independent commission, intelligence, Labor, leaks, police agencies, police association, police union, Queensland police, Victoria police |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/facade_i_by_phenomenologist.jpg" Photo credit: me. A larger version of the image can be seen here by clicking on full view once inside the gallery. The latest issue of Griffith REVIEW – Hidden Queensland – touches on a number of subjects [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, History, Life, Media, Photography, Queensland, Urbanism | Tagged 1980s Brisbane, ALP, Book review, Brisbane Writers Festival, Busted, Disruptive Influences, Edwina Shaw, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Goss government, Griffith REVIEW, Griffith REVIEW events, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Julianne Schultz, Kevin Rudd, Labor, magazine review, Melbourne Writers Festival, Peter Beattie, political culture, Queensland culture, Queensland history, Queensland politics, Raymond Evans, small magazines, Sociology, sociology of culture, urban sociology, Wayne Goss, writings Hidden Queensland |
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