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,‘Razorhurst’: The Expansion of Police Power, 1927–1930,This chapter explores how police forces increase their power in society. W.J. MacKay was instrumental in expanding police power in the late 1920s, when police gained draconian new powers to deal with suspected criminals and jurisdiction over drugs such as cocaine.

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,‘Murderous Coppers’: Policing the Timber Strike and the Coal Lockout, 1929–1930,This chapter focuses on two major industrial disputes which wracked New South Wales from late in 1928 to early in 1930, and in which W.J. MacKay played a prominent role. Both disputes demonstrate the ambivalent position of the police in times of industrial strife and the high cost of reasserting police power when it is seriously challenged.

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,‘Fascism, with Modifications’: The New Guard, the ‘Old Guard’, and Challenges to State Power, 1931–A serious challenge to public order in New South Wales was caused by the rise of the semi-fascist New Guard in 1931 and 1932. This chapter questions many accepted interpretations of the New Guard, the so-called Old Guard, and the police response to both.

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,‘Belt Their Bloody Heads Off’: The Police Response to the New Guard, 1932,This chapter explores the police response to the New Guard during the constitutional crisis of 1932. In the face of unprecedented political turmoil, MacKay used police power, sometimes unscrupulously, to protect civil order and constitutional government.

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,‘Fascism, with Modifications’: The New Guard, the ‘Old Guard’, and Challenges to State Power, 1931–A serious challenge to public order in New South Wales was caused by the rise of the semi-fascist New Guard in 1931 and 1932. This chapter questions many accepted interpretations of the New Guard, the so-called Old Guard, and the police response to both.

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,‘Belt Their Bloody Heads Off’: The Police Response to the New Guard, 1932,This chapter explores the police response to the New Guard during the constitutional crisis of 1932. In the face of unprecedented political turmoil, MacKay used police power, sometimes unscrupulously, to protect civil order and constitutional government.

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The SP Royal Commission: Police Power, Corruption and Scandal, 1936,W.J. MacKay’s commissionership was quickly marred by scandal. Allegations of serious malpractice by police enforcing laws against SP bookmaking led to a Royal Commission in 1936. This chapter examines corruption as an aspect of police power, and scandal as a means of social control of police.