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Australian studies in law, crime and justice
The Deputy Crown Solicitor and the bottom of the harbour scheme
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Wayward governance : illegality and its control in the public sector / P N Grabosky
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989
ISBN 0 642 14605 5
(Australian studies in law, crime and justice series)
Abstract
In the 1970s Australian companies were deliberately stripping companies of their assets so that they were unable to pay their debts. The practice represented a criminal fraud and this chapter focuses on the inadequate response to the practice by the Deputy Crown Solicitor's Office in Perth.