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Law in War 1

Freedom and Restriction in Australia During the Great War

by Dr Catherine Bond
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2020
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A nation often amends its laws during war, not least to regulate life at home.

Yet few historians have considered the impact of law on everyday lives in Australia during the Great War. In this original book, lawyer and historian Catherine Bond breathes life into the laws that were central to the way that people's daily lives were managed in Australia 1914-18. Riveting and at times shocking, it argues that in First World War Australia, law perpetuated a form of tyranny in the name of victory in war.

Bond finds that law was used as a tool against many Australians to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive them of property, liberty and basic human rights. This legal regime created a deep injustice that, for the most part, has remained undocumented and unacknowledged. The book examines and documents individual experiences under the law, so we meet the men who wrote the laws; a police officer who enforced the law; two men interned under the law; two women protestors who were gaoled under the law; a man imprisoned multiple times then deported; three men who were discriminated against by the law and, finally two men who benefitted from the law.

Many infamous laws were used during this period, including the War Precautions Act (and its myriad regulations) and the Unlawful Associations Act. Engaging and informative, this book holds those who wrote the laws to account, exposing the sheer breadth and impact of this wartime legal regime, some of which is still in force to this day.

ISBN:
9781742236483
9781742236483
Category:
First World War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2020
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm

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Catherine Bond's important work fills a gapping hole in the Australian military history lexicon by examining the effect of the major pieces of legislation which converted the home economy to a total war footings. As I discussed in 2018 in "War Precautions Act - Regulating the Home Front", Sabretache, December, 2018 there was a need for a scholarly work on the legal history of the First World War in Australia and Catherine's work is that. An examination of the regulations made under the War Precautions Act show that we are not currently in unprecedented times with the Covid19 Crisis restrictions rather we are revisiting the past over 100 years ago. This makes Catherine's work extremely relevant today for all Australian's as the War Precauctions Act was repealed. Rohan Goyne Immediate Past President Military Historical Society of Australia, Barrister and Solicitor to the High Court of Australia and Federal Courts of Australia

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