2. MATERIALS REQUIRED.
PADS.—Two pads, covered
with strong calico, and tacked
upon a piece of wood an inch
thick and nine inches long by
about seven inches wide.
INK.—Black printing ink.
8. ‘the wily chinese’
‘Then the handprint experts
went to work - Detective Potter
and his assistant; Detective
Johnstone, of the Criminal
Investigation Branch; and Mr.
Shaw, the expert at Pentridge
Prison.’
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5421275
9. ‘the degrading
hand-print’
‘As the impression of hand-prints
was only required of criminals in
China the practice now followed
by the Commonwealth in
connection with the return to
Australia of Chinese on a
certificate issued by the Customs
was insulting to the Chinese...
Other reasonable and sufficient
means of identification could
easily be adopted in lieu of the
degrading hand-print...’
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15169561
10. ‘the handprint
indignity’
‘Forty lives have been lost, mainly
Lascars, and the survivors, after
their narrow escape from the jaws
of death, were at once pounced
upon by officials, and compelled
to give their handprints.’
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15169561
12. prohibited
3. The immigration into the
Commonwealth of the persons
described in any of the following
paragraphs of this section (herein-
after called “prohibited immigrants”)
is prohibited, namely:—
(a) Any person who when asked to
do so by an officer fails to write out
at dictation and sign in the presence
of the officer a passage of fifty words
in length in an European language
directed by the officer;
15. ‘the test’
Donohoe v Wong Sau [1925] HCA 6:
‘I regard the test as being whether
the person is a constituent part of
the Australian community.’
‘I think the Chief Justice has hit the
nail on the head when he said that
the respondent was not coming
home.’
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3379665
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/HCA/1925/6.html
23. macroappraisal
Governance emphasizes the dialogue and interaction of
citizens and groups with the state as much as the state’s own
policies and procedures; focuses as well on documenting the
impact of the state on society, and the functions and activities
of society itself; encompasses all media rather than privileging
written text; searches for multiple narratives and hot spots of
contested discourse between citizen and state, rather than
accepting the official policy line; and deliberately seeks to give
voice to the marginalized, to losers as well as winners, to the
disadvantaged and underprivileged as well as the powerful and
articulate, which is accomplished through new ways of looking
at case files and electronic data and then choosing the most
succinct record in the best medium for documenting these
diverse voices.
Terry Cook
