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David Porter, Police Powers solicitor in Sniffer dogs rarely get it right, Sydney Morning Herald.

The impulsive need to condemn is a reaction to our inability to describe why riots happen in some disadvantaged areas and not others. We should be making a concerted effort to separate the process of identifying and punishing criminal acts from understanding why they happen, particularly on a large scale. Instead we get the constant insistence that people are rational moral actors — and that violence has no place in a reasonable society.

David Porter, Solicitor, Greater police powers unfair to ill, homeless, Sydney Morning Herald.

Joanna Shulman, Executive Officer, Alcohol-free zones don't go far enough, Sydney Morning Herald.