The current political climate of the war on terror is intensifying over-policing and surveillance by both state and federal security forces. The raiding of Muslim households and targeting of anti-war activists and student protesters can be seen as part of a broader strategy to enforce the ideology of the war on terror and thereby enforce a process of 'othering' that divides Australians from 'un-Australians'. The detention and deportation of Scott Parkin and arrests of two…
