Terror white paper: shiny new language, same old laws
February 23, 2010 by lifestyle · Leave a Comment
…this blog piece first appeared in Crikey 23 Feb 2010 The counter-terrorism white paper issued today is long overdue. Announced by the Prime Minister in December 2008 as “forthcoming”, the release has been delayed several times, presumably to give the government enough time to cleanse the document of any real detail and manage the process of strategic leaks that now seem to routinely precede any major announcement