Counter-Terrorism to Foreign Interference: Australia's Legislative Reply
Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza will chart the development of Australia’s national security legislative framework for the 21st century.
At the beginning of the 21st century the Australian Parliament found itself grappling with the challenge of constructing new laws to deal with a specific type of national security issue: the threat posed by terrorism in the wake of the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. By the end of the second decade of the century Australia’s national security law-making efforts had broadened to constructing new laws offering protection from the threats to Australia’s political system posed by foreign interference, and the challenges posed by advances in technology.
This presentation will chart the development of Australia’s national security legislative framework over this period. A focus on the process by which the Parliament constructed these laws will aim to demonstrate the important role of this institution in constructing laws which have the potential to impact significantly on human rights in a country which does not have an express Bill of Rights as part of its constitutional make-up.
Biography:
Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University. She is a member of the Centre for Military and Security Law at the ANU, and also a Visiting Researcher at the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown Law. Her research primarily deals with the Australian Parliament and the legislative process, especially the process by which Australian National Security Law is made. She is also interested in the way in which institutions provide oversight of the national security community in Australia. A distinctive feature of her approach is the use of ideas drawn from deliberative democratic theory. One of her main aims as a researcher is to continue to bring together ideas from the disciplines of political science and law to provide a richer understanding of the law-making and oversight processes in Australia.
Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza will chart the development of Australia’s national security legislative framework for the 21st century.
At the beginning of the 21st century the Australian Parliament found itself grappling with the challenge of constructing new laws to deal with a specific type of national security issue: the threat posed by terrorism in the wake of the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. By the end of the second decade of the century Australia’s national security law-making efforts had broadened to constructing new laws offering protection from the threats to Australia’s political system posed by foreign interference, and the challenges posed by advances in technology.
This presentation will chart the development of Australia’s national security legislative framework over this period. A focus on the process by which the Parliament constructed these laws will aim to demonstrate the important role of this institution in constructing laws which have the potential to impact significantly on human rights in a country which does not have an express Bill of Rights as part of its constitutional make-up.
Biography:
Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University. She is a member of the Centre for Military and Security Law at the ANU, and also a Visiting Researcher at the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown Law. Her research primarily deals with the Australian Parliament and the legislative process, especially the process by which Australian National Security Law is made. She is also interested in the way in which institutions provide oversight of the national security community in Australia. A distinctive feature of her approach is the use of ideas drawn from deliberative democratic theory. One of her main aims as a researcher is to continue to bring together ideas from the disciplines of political science and law to provide a richer understanding of the law-making and oversight processes in Australia.