W.J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910–1948: A Dangerous Man

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	1 ‘The Dominant Personality in the Force’
	2 Structure
2 ‘The Ladder of Promotion’: Leadership and Succession in the New South Wales Police Force, 1910–1929
	1 ‘I Do not Wish to Brag’: MacKay’s Background, Real and Imagined
	2 The New South Wales Police Force in 1910
	3 ‘Efictitiousvidence’: The IWW Affair
	4 An Officer on the Rise
	5 Hurdling Police: The Irish ‘Envoys’
	6 The Bunnerong Scandal
	7 ‘I Am Energetic and Ambitious’: Seniority and favouritism
3 ‘Razorhurst’: The Expansion of Police Power, 1927–1930
	1 The White Peril
	2 The Invention of ‘Razorhurst’
	3 Snowstorm: The Creation of the Drug Squad
	4 ‘A Very Dangerous Public Consequence’: Warnings and Outcomes
4 ‘Murderous Coppers’: Policing the Timber Strike and the Coal Lockout, 1929–1930
	1 The Union Buries Its Dead
	2 The Mythology of Rothbury
	3 Police and Industrial Disputes
	4 ‘It Was Bad Trouble’: The Timber Strike
	5 ‘Getting Cunning’: The Strike Leaders’ Trial
	6 ‘We Will “Go” the Miners’: Tragedy at Rothbury
	7 ‘Inspector MacKay’s “Basher Gangs”’: Reasserting Police Power
	8 ‘The Feeling Against the Police Was Very Strong’: Power and Authority
5 ‘Fascism, with Modifications’: The New Guard, the ‘Old Guard’, and Challenges to State Power, 1931–32
	1 Cutting the Ribbon
	2 The New Guard and the “Secret Armies”
	3 Fascism, Conservatism and the State
	4 High Policing: Police and Enemies of the State
	5 ‘The Future Is Fraught with the Gravest Possibilities’: The New Guard Emerges
	6 ‘If It Is Necessary to Use Force the Police Will Not Hesitate’: Ultimatum
6 ‘Belt Their Bloody Heads Off’: The Police Response to the New Guard, 1932
	1 ‘Insulting Words’
	2 ‘Belt Their Bloody Heads Off’: Reasserting Physical Power
	3 ‘A Parade of Police on a Scale Seldom Witnessed’: Reasserting Symbolic Power
	4 ‘Fascist Legion’: Discrediting the New Guard
	5 ‘Next in Line for the Post of Commissioner’
7 ‘A Dangerous Power’: Independence, Accountability and the Police Commissioner, 1934–1935
	1 Specially Big Boots: Police Independence and Accountability
	2 ‘The Duty of the Police is Solely to the Law’: The Salisbury Dismissal
	3 ‘Beyond the Control of Anyone’: The Amendment
	4 ‘Our Brilliant Young Police Commissioner’: MacKay Reaches the Top
8 The SP Royal Commission: Police Power, Corruption and Scandal, 1936
	1 ‘He Kept a “Tote”’: SP Bookmaking
	2 ‘The Pimps System’: Policing Unpopular Laws
	3 The Other Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Police
	4 ‘The Police Are Rottenly Corrupt’: The Mobilisation of Scandal
	5 ‘My Unpleasant Duty’: The SP Royal Commission
	6 ‘Do It Clean’: Leadership, Management and Corruption
	7 Law Enforcement by Other Means: The Illegal Extension of Police Power
	8 The Whistleblower
9 The Miller Scandal: Power, Loyalty and Police Culture, 1937
	1 Mowlds’ Ham and Beef Shop Revisited: The Response to Scandal
	2 ‘A Bloody Phizz-Gig’: The Persecution of Constable Miller
	3 ‘The Fear’: Power, Police Culture and the Code of Silence
	4 ‘Is Const. Miller Victim of Police Terrorism?’: The Extension of Scandal
	5 ‘It Humiliates Me’: The Miller Royal Commission
	6 ‘Dangerous Men’: The Redemption of Sergeant Chuck
	7 ‘A Very Severe Ordeal’: The Consequences of Scandal
10 ‘I Am in Charge of the Police Ship’: The Minister, the Union and the Power of the Commissioner, 1938–1942
	1 ‘Crawling to W.J.’: Independence, Autocracy and Intervention
	2 ‘Foibles or Misdemeanours’: Controlling Political Masters
	3 ‘Attack Crime from the Cradle’: The Police Boys’ Clubs
	4 ‘Give Me This Power’: The Overtime Affair
	5 An ‘Australian FBI’: The Security Service
11 Policing ‘the Abominable Crime’: Legislated Morality, Selective Enforcement and the Abuse of Power, 1937–1943
	1 A Charge of Indecency
	2 A Secret World: Homosexuality and the Police
	3 ‘A Grave Public Scandal’: The ‘McNally’ Affair
	4 ‘A Thorough Overhauling’: Aftermath
	5 ‘Malice Could Go No Further’: The Fall of S.A. Maddocks
12 The ‘Appalling Vista’: Police Power and Miscarriages of Justice, 1932 and 1944
	1 ‘Fiendish Murder’: the Wilkinson and Denzil Killings
	2 ‘Eye for Eye’: Miscarriages of Justice
	3 The Hunt for William Moxley
	4 ‘I don’t Know Why I Done This Thing’: Fatal Confession
	5 The Pyjama Girl
	6 ‘I Am a Policeman and Have a Duty to Do’: MacKay and Agostini
	7 ‘Such Methods Were Conducive Only of Failure’: the Police Culture and Miscarriages of Justice
13 The Keogh Scandal: Unaccountable Power and Systemic Corruption, 1946–1947
	1 Sunny Corner: The Holiday House Affair
	2 ‘There is Too Much Covered up Because of Fear’: the Keogh Scandal
14 Conclusion
	1 ‘Visionary yet Arrogant’: Assessing W.J. MacKay
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Index