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Author Whitton, Evan.

Title Can of worms II : a citizen's reference book to crime and the administration of justice / Evan Whitton
Edition Second edition
Published Broadway, N.S.W. : Fairfax Library, 1987

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Description 471 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents The Police -- Eleven commissioners -- Queensland police corruption -- The Milieu -- The dock wars -- The Mackay case -- Some faces in the crowd -- Politics of the milieu -- Tax : $4 billion missing -- Drugs : $2 billion a year -- Punters -- The Law Attitudes to the law -- Libel laws : protecting rogues in high places -- Barwick and Mundroolsa -- Queensland : an independent judiciary -- Farquhar : where the government went wrong -- The Kevin Humphrey's affair -- The Wran Royal Commission -- Aftermath : a low rent track in the sticks -- The Age tapes -- Lionel Murphy : trials ansd tribulations -- Two cases that raised -- Reform of the legal system -- The Bureaucracy -- The voyager cover-up -- Evans : the politics of pPoltroonery -- Is Bathurst burning ? -- Machine Politics -- The Botany affair -- The Enmore matter -- Epilogue : end of the Wran era
Notes Bibliography: p. 443
Bibliography Bibliography: page 443
Subject Business and politics -- Australia.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.
Gambling -- Texts.
Judicial power -- Australia.
Justice, Administration of -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Justice, Administration of -- Australia.
Justice, Administration of -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Organized crime -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Organized crime -- Australia.
Organized crime -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Police -- Australia.
Political questions and judicial power -- Australia.
ISBN 0949054968
Other Titles Can of worms 2