Courtroom Knuckledusters. "Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent" by Chris Lydgate and "The Mahathir Legacy: A Nation Divided, A Region At Risk" by Ian Stewart. [review]
Courtroom Knuckledusters. "Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent" by Chris Lydgate and "The Mahathir Legacy: A Nation Divided, A Region At Risk" by Ian Stewart. [review]
| dc.contributor.author | Mares, Peter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-01T06:34:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-09-01T06:34:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Singapore and Malaysia have a lot in common beyond a shared border and a shared colonial heritage. Both countries have been dominated for decades by one strong leader - Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, Dr Mahathir Mohamad in Malaysia. Both have a weak Opposition and a muzzled media. Both have an internal security act inherited from the British, and which is used to detain people without trial. In both countries, the common law system has been bent into ugly new shapes to silence dissent. Each of these books traces the fate of a man who dared to challenge the leader but failed, crushed by an adversary with superior tactics, greater political strength and, above all, more sway in the courts. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victoria | en |
| dc.format.extent | 308368 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mares, Peter 2003. Courtroom Knuckledusters. Review of "Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent" by Chris Lydgate and "The Mahathir Legacy: A Nation Divided, A Region At Risk" by Ian Stewart. 'Australian Book Review', No 251, May, 17-18. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0155-2864 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1199 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Australian Book Review | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | No 251 | en |
| dc.subject | Australian | en |
| dc.subject | Book Reviews | en |
| dc.subject | Publishing | en |
| dc.subject.other | Australian Standard Research Classification > 420200 Literature Studies > 420202 Australia and New Zealand | en |
| dc.title | Courtroom Knuckledusters. "Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent" by Chris Lydgate and "The Mahathir Legacy: A Nation Divided, A Region At Risk" by Ian Stewart. [review] | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |