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The Australian Security Continuum: National and Corporate Security Gaps from a Surveillance Language Perspective

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This chapter presents the concept of surveillance as embedded into the Australian security continuum, arguing there are still significant and challenging gaps in surveillance capabilities and ultimately security. To demonstrate such a security continuum, along with its gaps in efficacy, this chapter draws on variations in the language of surveillance (or concept) to highlight a disconnection across cultural discourses and ultimately states of security. The language of surveillance provides the opportunity to highlight the changing views, needs and applications for the many security continuum actors in the surveillance discourse.

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  1. School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

    David Brooks, Jeffery Corkill & Michael Coole

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  1. Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

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    Kevin Walby

  3. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Ian Warren

  4. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Darren Palmer

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Brooks, D., Corkill, J., Coole, M. (2016). The Australian Security Continuum: National and Corporate Security Gaps from a Surveillance Language Perspective. In: Lippert, R., Walby, K., Warren, I., Palmer, D. (eds) National Security, Surveillance and Terror. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43243-4_6

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