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Review on The Submission on the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026
In practice, such bans don't eliminate threats, they only incentivize covert operations, making profiling and surveillance harder. Making my colleagues and the security industries job harder. Data shows that suppressed groups fragment into smaller, harder-to-track cells, increasing radicalization risks among the alienated.

Sam Wilks
Jan 175 min read


Security Profiling After Bondi - Predictable Violence in an Age of Institutional Evasion
The alternative is to keep relearning the same lesson at higher costs. Societies that refuse to judge patterns eventually pay for judging consequences. Security profiling is not a retreat from liberty; it is the price of preserving it.

Sam Wilks
Jan 43 min read


Why the sovereign assemblies and citizens Have No Standing in Australia
In Australia, those rights exist only within the boundaries of the Australian Constitution, which defines how power is created, limited, and exercised. Claims that Australia’s corporate registration or its participation in international trade somehow cancels constitutional authority misunderstand the issue entirely: those registrations relate to taxation and external commerce, not to the source of law or legitimacy. The Constitution remains the supreme authority, and individu

Sam Wilks
Jan 35 min read


What Could Change Bank Behaviour in the NT
The common thread is discipline. None of these measures promise rapid price growth. None rely on taxpayer guarantees. All focus on reducing downside risk. That is the only language banks understand.
The Northern Territory does not need optimism. It needs predictability. When risk falls, credit follows. And when credit follows, transaction volumes recover, not because they were engineered, but because they were earned.

Sam Wilks
Jan 24 min read


Tonight, Australia grieves.
This moment demands more than vigils and platitudes. It demands moral clarity. It demands that Australians reject the lie that calling out hatred is itself hateful. It demands that institutions remember why they exist, not to manage narratives, but to secure peace.

Sam Wilks
Dec 14, 20252 min read


A Chain of Neglect - Incentives, Omissions, and Tragic Outcomes
Three weeks later, the foreseeable unfolded. The same boy, still unchecked, collided with a seventy three-year-old Greek woman inside the centre. She fell, striking her head and suffering a massive hematoma.

Sam Wilks
Dec 14, 20256 min read


Why Restrictions Fail While Violence Grows
Real reform begins not with bans, but with restoring the principle that choices have consequences. Until the NT re-embraces accountability as the backbone of public safety, restrictions will continue to multiply, violence will continue to rise, and the burden will continue to fall on those who already play by the rules.

Sam Wilks
Dec 10, 20253 min read


Policing in a Vacuum
Restoring order requires more than funding or task forces. It demands a return to the foundational truth that authority, to be legitimate, must also be assertively exercised. A vacuum is not a policy. It is a warning.

Sam Wilks
Dec 8, 20253 min read


Why Soft Responses to Youth Crime Create Hardened Criminals
Youth crime is not a mystery of sociology. It is the visible outcome of a generation raised with no friction between impulse and consequence.

Sam Wilks
Dec 7, 20253 min read


When Deterrence Dies
Crime is not a random weather pattern. It follows patterns of opportunity, risk calculation, and behavioural reinforcement.

Sam Wilks
Dec 6, 20253 min read


Understanding the Purpose of Security Briefings and Debriefings
Briefings prevent incidents. Debriefs prevent repetition. One is prophylactic, one is corrective medicine.

Sam Wilks
Dec 5, 20253 min read


The Future of Crime Prevention: Innovations in CPTED
Future CPTED design increasingly reinforces territorial clarity through dynamic digital and physical cues.

Sam Wilks
Dec 1, 20254 min read


The Economics of Personal Protection Devices
One critique of the personal protection market is that not all individuals can afford advanced devices.

Sam Wilks
Sep 14, 20253 min read


Philosophical Debates- Is Security a Right or a Responsibility?
When Authoritarian action or economic mismanagement and over-taxation occur, those individuals must be willing to defend themselves and even overthrow the state.

Sam Wilks
Sep 11, 20253 min read


Psychology of Leadership in Security Operations
A leader in security operations must model composure under pressure.

Sam Wilks
Sep 10, 20253 min read


Individualism vs. Collectivism - Impacts on National Security Policies
Statistics show that societies emphasising individual accountability generally experience lower violent crime rates

Sam Wilks
Sep 8, 20253 min read


Some Myths About Human Behaviour in Emergency Situations
Emergencies are rarely defined by the hazard itself but by how people respond to it. Yet most people and even policymakers operate under...

Sam Wilks
Sep 7, 20253 min read


Arrest the Excuses, Not Just the Criminals
We must reject the corrosive narrative that criminals are mere victims of circumstance. Every human being faces hardship, yet most navigate life without resorting to violence or theft. By refusing to indulge excuses and returning to clear standards of moral accountability, we can restore social trust and reduce crime.

Sam Wilks
Jun 2, 20253 min read
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