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Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)

2009

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Regulating Fishing In Australia: From Mullet Size Limits To International Hot Pursuits, Warwick Gullett Jan 2009

Regulating Fishing In Australia: From Mullet Size Limits To International Hot Pursuits, Warwick Gullett

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Fisheries laws simply regulate human interactions with fish. Yet it is an enormous challenge to get them right. The central problem with which fishing laws need to deal is that technological advancements continually enable people (especially commercial fishers) to increase their ability to catch fish. This may be coupled with an increasing number of people fishing, or perhaps a relatively stable number of people fishing but changing their practice such as intensively fishing in one location. Human activities affecting fish are ever changing and, as a result, so too are fisheries laws. Past fishery collapses (such as cod stocks off …


International Police Missions As Reverse Capacity Building: Experiences Of Australian Police Personnel, Vandra Harris, Andrew Goldsmith Jan 2009

International Police Missions As Reverse Capacity Building: Experiences Of Australian Police Personnel, Vandra Harris, Andrew Goldsmith

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Since 2003 many hundreds of Australian police officers have served in police peace-keeping and capacitybuilding missions in Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. Working within bilateral or multilateral engagements, these police have encountered significant differences in legal and policing cultures as well as political and community environments. This paper considers how these experiences influence Australian police officers' thinking about policing in general, and how they view the legacy of their service. It explores the extent to which Australian police think they have had their own capabilities altered by the very processes through which they attempt to build the capacity …


Combating Iuu Fishing: International Legal Developments, Mary Ann Palma Jan 2009

Combating Iuu Fishing: International Legal Developments, Mary Ann Palma

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When the international Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IPOA-IUU) was adopted in 2001, the term illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing or "IUU fishing" instantly gained the attention of States, regional organisations, non-government organisations, and academic institutions.