Australia had no counter-terrorism laws before 9/11 and now we have 92. UQ's Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Griffith University's Keiran Hardy examine if the new laws have actually made us safer.
The reading to be discussed is Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear, ‘“Your DNA is Our History”: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property’ (2012) 53 Current Anthropology S233.
UQ constitutional law expert Professor Nicholas Aroney argues the idea of ‘passports’ to enable citizens to travel within Australia is not a good precedent to set.
