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Lessons of History : Keeping Politics Out of Policing single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Lessons of History : Keeping Politics Out of Policing
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'I couldn't move. Curled up paralysed at the bottom of the stairs I just wanted the screams to stop. My brother couldn't stop his cries and my dad wouldn't stop hitting him with the belt. I shrank as small as I could and did nothing. I can still hear my brother's screams, even now. To my eternal shame, I was so glad it wasn't me.' (Publication abstract)

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  • Epigraph:

    If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. - George Orwell, 1984

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    y separately published work icon Griffith Review Perils of Populism no. 57 August Julianne Schultz (editor), 2017 11624539 2017 periodical issue

    'This issue of Australia's most awarded quarterly is about making sense of the populist moment we are living in and includes essays about building a conscience, climate-change deniers, obstructive bureaucracy, religious cults and the enduring kindness of strangers.'  (Publication summary)

         2017     pg. 158-173
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