The Wellington protest is testing police independence and public tolerance – are there lessons from Canada’s crackdown?

Description

A theoretically informed discussion of the right to protest vis-a-vis the freedom of others and the powers and responsibilities of the police in relation to a contemporary event.

This activity is complex because it involves the collection, explanation, interpretation, and presentation of diverse and contested theoretical ideas. It is complex because it translates theoretically difficult concepts into easily understandable terms for a non-specialist audience and applies them to questions of contemporary public policy. It is complex because it draws on ideas developed through my research published over several years. This means that time and effort cannot be quantified with precision but that it is, nevertheless, substantial. The diversity of end-users is evident in the number of readers across at least five jurisdictions and the engagement plans and briefings occurred with the commissioning editor.

Period	21 Feb 2022
Work for	The Conversation, Australia
Degree of Recognition	International