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1 online resource : illustrations |
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text file EPUB 1.6MB |
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polychrome |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Elected governments pose the greatest threat to Australians' security. Political leaders increasingly promote secrecy, ignorance and fear to introduce new laws that undermine individual liberties and magnify the risks of being dragged into a horrific new war for no good reason. It is a criminal offence to receive or publish a wide range of information unrelated to national security. Our defence weapons are so dependent on US technical support that Australia couldn't defend itself without US involvement. The Commonwealth is amassing comprehensive databases on citizens' digital fingerprints and facial recognition characteristics. True? False? Read Secret: The Making of Australia's Security State and you decide. Fresh archival material and revealing details of conversations between former CIA, US State Department and Australian officials will make you reconsider the world around you. |
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Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; PART 1: THE CLANDESTINE AGENCIES; 1 The security scandal that the US hid from the newborn ASIO; 2 ASIO struggles with change; 3 An information gatherer mutates into a secret police agency; 4 ASIS: The government agency you pay to break the law; 5 ASD/NSA: The Five Eyes club shows the Stasi how it's done; 6 The uses and abuses of intelligence; PART 2: AN IDEAL PLACE FOR DANGEROUS TESTS AND DANGEROUS BASES; 7 Medical support for trials to keep the Asian hordes at bay; 8 The best place to test the deadliest nerve agents |
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9 Fighting the good fight against chemical and biological warfare10 Menzies' gift; 11 The deceptively named minor trials; 12 British perfidy, Australian timidity; 13 The struggle to reveal Maralinga's malign secrets; 14 A wise mandarin ignores leaks; 15 How Australia joined the nuclear war club; 16 Dangerous advice from ignorant Australian officials; 17 Bluster and belligerence; 18 North West Cape: More dangerous than ever; 19 The man who thought he owned the secrets; 20 The man who thought he owned a prime minister; 21 The men who spread the fairytale about arms control |
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22 The men seduced by the secretsPART 3: ANZUS: THE TREATY WITHOUT A SECURITY GUARANTEE; 23 The difficult birth and early years of a treaty; 24 Foreign bases and foreign political interference; 25 Enduring faith in a guarantee that doesn't exist; 26 How New Zealand has survived without ANZUS; 27 The lonely death of a good policy; 28 What to do about a bellicose ally; PART 4: THE WHITLAM ERA; 29 The irrational US hatred of Whitlam; 30 Punishing an innocent ally; 31 Fraser's narrow escape; 32 Some distinguished gentlemen from the CIA; 33 Embracing ignorance |
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PART 5: AUSTRALIA'S SOVEREIGNTY CLAIMS-THE AMBITIOUS TO THE SUPINE34 Australia's expansionist ambitions; 35 Chained to the chariot wheels of the Pentagon; 36 Surrendering judicial sovereignty; PART 6: TRYING TO PLUG THE LEAKS; 37 Inspector Tange investigates; 38 Labor goes to court; 39 Embarrassing the government, informing the public; 40 Evans: A vexatious litigant undone; PART 7: LIBERTY LOST; 41 Dismantling the Menzies legacy; 42 Seventy-five new laws against murder; 43 Australia's own national security state; 44 Fighting a phantom called foreign influence and the encryptiondemons |
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45 The national security supremoPART 8: THIRTEEN WARS-ONLY ONE A WAR OF NECESSITY FOR AUSTRALIA; 46 The foundation myth of our four colonial wars; 47 World War I: Labor's secret plans for an expeditionary force; 48 World War II: No sovereign interest in the integrity of Australia; 49 Korea: Barbarism unleashed; 50 Off to war again: Malaya and Indonesia; 51 Vietnam: Stopping an election, then losing an unnecessary war; 52 Testimony from those who were there; 53 A defeat born of secrecy, ignorance, arrogance and brutality; 54 Australian troops should have left Afghanistan within a few months |
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National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization. AU-CaNED |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National security -- Australia.
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National security. |
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Australia. |
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Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
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Politics and government. |
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1945- |
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Since 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780522872828 (electronic book) |
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0522872824 (electronic book) |
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9780522872804 |
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