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With Reckless Abandon: Haneef And Ul-Haque In Australia's 'War On Terror', Mark Rix
With Reckless Abandon: Haneef And Ul-Haque In Australia's 'War On Terror', Mark Rix
Sydney Business School - Papers
This brief paper considers the political and social implications of the manner in which Australia has prosecuted the so-called ‘war on terror’. It does this by investigating relevant aspects of Australia’s anti-terrorism legislation and the performance of Australian security and law enforcement agencies, namely, the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Focusing on the Haneef and Ul-Haque cases, the paper will consider how the political climate created by the former Federal Government’s legislative approach to the war on terror has influenced the performance of these organisations. By focusing on these two cases, the paper …
Questioning A Neoliberal Urban Regeneration Policy: The Rhetoric Of “Cities Of Culture” And The City Of Gwangju, Korea, Kwang-Suk Lee
Questioning A Neoliberal Urban Regeneration Policy: The Rhetoric Of “Cities Of Culture” And The City Of Gwangju, Korea, Kwang-Suk Lee
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The present study traces recent trends in cultural policy concerning “cities of culture” in South Korea. The paper is a case study of the city of Gwangju, known as the birthplace of modern democracy in Korea. Currently, public input from below into the urban regeneration project for Gwangju is almost nonexistent, while most urban regeneration policies have been implemented from the top by elites who enjoy exhibiting their performances through constructing massive edifices rather than encouraging the preservation of such intangibles as historical significance through cultural participation from below. The government’s policy of promoting Gwangju as the “city of culture” …