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The Criminal Justice Commission: A Political Football?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Colleen Lewis
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Queensland's Fitzgerald Inquiry was expected to last six weeks. It ran for two years (1987–1989). The inquiry was established to look at suspected police misconduct. It ended up exposing vertical corruption and widespread abuse of power in the Police Force; a less than arms-length relationship between police and the National Party government which contributed to the lack of effective police accountability processes; other official misconduct by non-police public servants; and political dishonesty and corruption.

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Queensland Review , Volume 4 , Issue 2: Police Reform and the Criminal Justice Commission in Queensland edited by Tim Prenzler , October 1997 , pp. 1 - 11
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