On last week’s International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, most nations took the opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to an international society free of illegal drugs. Police from London to Washington, Canberra to …
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The beat ‘911. Where’s your emergency?’ Apple wants to shorten the response times of emergency services. The iPhone’s next operating system will pinpoint the location of a 911 call, allowing the 6,300 emergency response centres …
In February, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner, Andrew Colvin, told the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee that he faced a supply and demand challenge at a time of budget cuts. ‘The demand for …
No one should be surprised that the Home Affairs department—with its ambitious minister, Peter Dutton, and his activist secretary, Mike Pezzullo—is feeling its oats. When Malcolm Turnbull granted Dutton his wish for a mega department, …
In an earlier post, we argued that with the forging of the Turnbull government’s Home Affairs portfolio, the time was right to question the policy assumptions underpinning Australia’s domestic security strategies. And with that, we …