Coming soon to John Howard's Australia: U.S.-style civil forfeiture, in which the police can confiscate the assets of suspected drug dealers, without getting a conviction. As the U.S. example shows, civil forfeiture has been a great weapon in the War On Drugs, not to mention a nice little earner for some well-placed law-enforcement officials.

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