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dc.contributor.authorChisholm, Murray
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T10:18:16Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T10:18:16Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifierONIX_20240718_9781760466466_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92389
dc.description.abstractThis study builds on a close examination of an archive of files that advised the Australian Commonwealth Executive on Papua New Guineans found guilty of capital offences in PNG between 1954 and 1965. These files provide telling insight into conceptions held by officials at different stages of the justice process into justice, savagery and civilisation, and colonialism and Australia's role in the world. The particular combination of idealism and self-interest, liberalism and paternalism, and justice and authoritarianism axiomatic to Australian colonialism becomes apparent and enables discussion of Australia’s administration of PNG in the lead-up to the acceptance of independence as an immediate policy goal. The files show Australia gathering the authority to grant mercy into the hands of the Commonwealth and then devolving it back to the territories. In these transitions, the capital case review files show the trajectory of Australian colonialism during a period when the administration was unsure of the duration and nature of its future relationship with PNG.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPacific Series
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences::LNFJ Criminal law: offences against the person
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences::LNFX Criminal procedure
dc.subject.othercapital punishment
dc.subject.otherclemency
dc.subject.otherPapua New Guinea
dc.subject.otherAustralian colonialism
dc.titleCapital Punishment, Clemency and Colonialism in Papua New Guinea, 1954–65
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/CPCCPNG.2024
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760466466
oapen.relation.isbn9781760466459
oapen.imprintANU Press
oapen.pages282
oapen.place.publicationCanberra


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