'Back to the Future: Australian Border Policing Under Labor, 2007–2013 (Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 102-125)'

• Back to the Future: Australian Border Policing Under Labor, 2007–2013, Michael Grewcock, State Crime Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 102-125

Summary

This article analyses the border policies of australia’s federal Labor governments between 2007 and 2013. It argues that the policies of externalization pursued by Labor inevitably led to the restoration of the Pacific Solution introduced by the previous Liberal-National Party Coalition government and reproduced similar forms of state criminality and resistance.

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  Mike Grewcock