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Bikies crackdown: did the Constitution fail Queensland?

Posted on October 21, 2013 by a1178428

Adelaide Law School’s Dr Gabrielle Appleby writes for The Conversation on Queensland’s new law and order measures. Last week, Queensland’s state government introduced a number of tough new law and order measures targeting serious sexual offenders and bikies. Under the new laws, bikie gang members in Queensland face being locked up in maximum security jails for […]

Posted in Government & Citizenship, Research | Tagged bikies, constitutional law, democracy, organised crime, paedophiles, Public Law and Policy Research Unit (PLPRU), Queensland, serious sex offenders, unicameral system |

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Citizens United and the Crisis of Democracy

Posted on July 5, 2012 by a1178428

In 2010 the US Supreme Court in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission held restrictions on campaign financing by corporations and other entities were unconstitutional under the First Amendment free speech guarantees. It is a decision that Dr Peter Burdon argues has deepened the crisis of democracy in the United States. In 1975 the Trilateral […]

Posted in Government & Citizenship, Research | Tagged campaign financing, Citizen's United v Federal Electoral Commission, constitutional law, corporations, democracy, First Amendment, free speech, plutocracy, presidential election, Public Law and Policy Research Unit (PLPRU), Super-PACs, Supreme Court, United States |

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