Who is the ‘Public’ in ‘Public Space’?

Lipmann B , ‘The Privatisation of Public Space’ (2002) 15(1) Parity 6; Crane Phil Dee Mike , ‘Young People, Public Space and New Urbanism’ (2001) 20(1) Youth Studies Australia 11; Morey M , ‘Whose Space is it Anyway? A Study of Young People's Interactions with Security Guards in NSW’ (1999) 52(3) Australian Social Work 51; White R , ‘Street Life, Police Practices and Youth Behaviour’ in White R Alder C , The Police and Young People in Australia (1994) 113–124. See also Walsh T , ‘Waltzing Matilda One Hundred Years Later: Interactions Between Homeless Persons and the Criminal Justice System in Queensland’ (2003) 25(1) Sydney Law Review 75.

White R , ‘Contested Spaces’ (2002) June Rights Now 7; Drew B Coleman A , ‘This Place Here is our Home: Defining Homelessness Beyond Housing’ (1999) 12(2) Parity 16; James S , ‘Delineating the Dryzone’ (1994) 5(2) Polemic 75.

A full report on the results of the survey may be found in Du-Briard M , Public Space …Public Rights: The Views of Marginalised People Who Use Public Space (2003).

Public drunkenness is also an offence under s164 of the Liquor Act 1992 (Qld).

Moore v Moulds (1981) 7 QL 227; Parry v Denman (District Court of Cairns (Queensland), 23 May 1997) in A West ‘Sentencing for Vagrancy’ (2000) 21(1) The Queensland Lawyer 12; see also Walsh T , above n 1.

Chamberlain C MacKenzie D , ‘Understanding Contemporary Homelessness: Issues of Definition and Meaning’ (1992) 27(4) Australian Journal of Social Issues 274.

Walsh T Klease C , ‘Down and Out? Homelessness and Citizenship’ (forthcoming).

Middenforp C , ‘Homelessness and Public Space: Unwelcome Visitors’ (2002) 15(1) Parity 18. See also Sanders J , ‘Youth + Street = Crime?’ (2000) 13(6) Parity 9.

Middenforp , above n 8.

Ibid.

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Race and Offensive Language Charges (1999); Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council, Policing Public Order (1999).

Spooner P , ‘Moving in the Wrong Direction’ (2001) 20(1) Youth Studies Australia 27.

Morey M , above n1.

Victorian Law Reform Commission, Summary Offences Act 1966 and Vagrancy Act 1966: A Review (1992); Western Australian Law Reform Commission, Report on Police Act Offences (1992); Johnston E , Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody National Report: Overview and Recommendations (1991).

See Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Recommendations 86, 87, above n 14; Schetzer L , ‘Summit: Strategies to Reduce Over-Representation in the NSW Justice System’ (1999) July Rights Now 14; Pirie K Cornack S , ‘What is Obscene — the Language or the Arrest that Follows?’ (1993) Aboriginal Justice Issues 147; Victorian Law Reform Commission, above n 14.

Coleman A , ‘Public Spaces, Public Stories: Long-Term Homelessness in Fortitude Valley’ (2002) 15(1) Parity 7; Roland J , ‘When Outside is All You Have: The Rights of Homeless People in Public Space’ (2000) 14(5) Parity 2; Drew B Coleman Anne , above n 2.

Goldie C , ‘Living in Public Space: A Human Rights Wasteland?’ (2002) 27(6) Alternative Law Journal 277; Drew B Coleman A , above n 2.

See Lynch P , ‘Begging for Change: Homelessness and the Law’ (2002) 26(3) Melbourne University Law Review 690.

Goldie C , above n 16; Memmott P , ‘Response to Indigenous People Living in Public Spaces’ (2002) 15(1) Parity 11; Day W Bartlett , ‘A View from the Long Grass’ (1999) 12(3) Parity 21.

Quayle C , ‘It's Public Space – Get Out of My Face!’ (2000) December Rights Now 22.

Ibid. See also White J , ‘Power/Knowledge and Public Space: Policing the “Aboriginal Towns”’ (1997) 30 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 275.

Horn M Cooke M , A Question of Begging: A Study of the Extent and Nature of Begging in the City of Melbourne (2001); Dean H Melrose M , ‘Easy Pickings or Hard Profession? Begging as an Economic Activity’, in Dean H , (ed) Begging Questions: Street Level Economic Activity and Society Policy Failure (1999); Fooks G Pantazis C , ‘Criminalisation of Homelessness, Begging and Street Living’ in Kennett P Marsh A , (eds) Homelessness: Exploring the New Terrain (1999). See also Walsh T , ‘Defending Begging Offenders’ (2004) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal (forthcoming).

See Dean H Melrose M , above n 22.

Walsh T , above n 22.

Bentley P , ‘The Violent Verb’ (1994) August National Outlook 26.

Unreported, Dubbo Local Court, Magistrate David Heilpern, 23 August 1999; the judgment may be found at (1999) 24(5) Alternative Law Journal 238. See also Pirie K Cornack S , above n 15, 142.

See for example Pirie K Cornack S , above n 15, 142; Commissioner Wootten in Johnston E , above n 14; Weisbrot D , ‘Sex, Words and Magistrates’ (1991) 16(6) Legal Service Bulletin 297.

Pirie K Cornack S , above n 15.

Pirie K Cornack S , above n 15; Weisbrot D , above n 27.

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DPP v Carr [2002] NSWSC 194; Police v Shannon Thomas Dunn above n 26; Pirie K Cornack S , above n 15; Johnston E , above n 14 per Commissioner Wootton; Weisbrot D , above n 27; Stratton J , ‘Offensive Behaviour’ (1991) 16(3) Legal Service Bulletin 132; Bentley P , above n 25.

Waldron J , ‘Homelessness and Community’ (2000) 50 University of Toronto Law Journal 371.