Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Conversions
Introduction
1 Redcoats, Bluebottles and Alligators
The Rattlesnake Arrives
A Discordant Evolution
The Baton versus the Bayonet
A Troubled Community
Police for Victoria
2 Drunks, Soldiers or Policemen?
Joe! Joe!
At the Shrine of Bacchus
Not on the Square
A Union of Sentiment
Power and Ambivalence
3 Erinmen, Wren and O’Callaghan’s Men
The Irish Influence
The Pursuit of Ned Kelly
The Policeman’s Lot
The Darling of the State
‘O’Cally-ghin’
4 Fighting with the Gloves Off
The Horseless Carriage
A National Existence
A Union for Policemen
Women and Warriors
The Police Strike
5 Good Men are Needed at the Top
Reconstruction
On the Edge of a Volcano
The Third Degree
The Home Front
Tenez le Droit
6 Towards the Twenty-first Century
The Thin Blue Line
Age of Dissent
The Policeman’s Position
Future Shock
1984
7 The New Centurions
The Deadliest Decade
The People Business
‘Call Me Christine’
An Error of Judgement
Nothing is Forever
Out of the Blue
Uncertain Times
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index