Kathy Marchant wants to thank the people of West End for their tremendous response when her partner, 75-year-old Jim Butler, went missing at the Thomas Dixon Centre on Saturday, 12 August. Jim, who has dementia, was found at the Gap police station six hours later. An anaesthetist in his working life and active in the…
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To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane
In her new book, police historian Dr Anastasia Dukova explores the development of Brisbane law enforcement. Dr Dukova’s doctoral thesis was a comparative study of the Dublin, London, and Brisbane police detailed in her book, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and Its Colonial Legacy.[1] She found that early Australian policing had its roots…