Regiments
Regiments

Author: Roger Perkins

Publisher: Newton Abbot, Devon : R. Perkins

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13:

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Intended as a work of reference, this critical bibliography is a description of the historical records published by, or in the name of, all the military, para-military and police forces which served the British Empire and Commonwealth. It is based upon information received from 200 contributors and from contacts with 78 military libraries worldwide. It gives a listing of all such books, for all of the dominions, colonies, protectorates and mandated territories, from the time of Robert Clive's India through to 1993.

W.J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910–1948
W.J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910–1948

Author: Richard Evans

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-29

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 303110921X

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This book tells the fascinating story of William John MacKay, a man who dominated policing in New South Wales for three decades, until his death in 1948. MacKay was fearless, brilliant and ruthless. He was responsible for beating-up striking unionists, but he also smashed the semi-fascist New Guard when it was a threat to democracy. He reformed and modernized the New South Wales Police Force, and he framed innocent men for capital crimes. He cracked down on organized crime and corruption, and he was himself corrupt. Dogged by scandal, he was the subject of no fewer than seven royal commissions. The story of W.J. MacKay is also the story of policing in Australia, from the 1920s through to the corruption-riddled period after the Second World War. This gripping history explores the messy complexities of police power and sheds new light on a fascinating period in Australian police history

Bent Uncensored
Bent Uncensored

Author: James Morton

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-10-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0522870864

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The sensational murder convictions this winter of former NSW detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara for the killing of drug dealer Jamie Gao has meant that previously suppressed material in Bent can at last be read. James Morton and Susanna Lobez have illustrated, in several Gangland books, that Australia almost certainly has out-ganged other countries. Now their spotlight is turned on corruption within the police services and identifying which state wins the bent cop handicap. Morton and Lobez examine the problems that started with the First Fleet and spread through to the present day, looking at the trouble caused by greed, power, drink, sex, money and, most recently, drugs. They compare the experience in Australia with corruption in America, England and Hong Kong, concentrating in particular on organised corruption at the highest levels, including judges, lawyers and politicians, through to the petty criminals who work our streets. Which state has the shadiest cops? The answer will surprise you.

Aborigines and Colonists
Aborigines and Colonists

Author: R. H. W. Reece

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This period of Australian history when the squatters were increasingly in conflict with Aborigines was a time when the colonial government attempted to protect and legislate for Aborigines; The position of Aborigines in towns and rural areas is discussed, the attitude of missionaries and the founding of protective stations, the development of government policy under humanitarian pressure from Britain, the Myall Creek trials are recorded; to illustrate government policy and prejudices of the colonists and finally the frustrated efforts of Governor Gipps to implement aid and protection are discussed.

Patrician Democrat
Patrician Democrat

Author: Alan Powell

Publisher: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 214

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Birds and other wild life of the lake country of the Quetico-Superior, northwest of Lake Superior.