The name Commonwealth Police was used by three separate policing organisations in Australia at various times in the 20th century.
Read more about Commonwealth Police: Commonwealth Police Force (1917–1919), Commonwealth Police (1927–1957), Commonwealth Police (1960–1979)
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“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”
—A. Alvarez (b. 1929)