Secret : the making of Australia's security state / Brian Toohey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toohey, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia--Politics and government.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Australia is less secure than it has ever been and the greatest threat comes from our elected government. Political leaders increasingly promote secrecy, ignorance and fear to introduce new laws that undermine individual liberties and safety. 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. And comprehensive databases on citizens' digital fingerprints and facial recognition characteristics are being amassed by the Commonwealth. Conspiracy? Paranoia? 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.

Contents:

The clandestine agencies

An ideal place for dangerous tests and dangerous bases

ANZUS : the treaty without a security guarantee

The Whitlam era

Australia's sovereignty claims

the ambititious to the supine

Trying to plug the leaks

Liberty lost

Thirteen wars

only one a war of necessity for Australia

Nuclear risks are every present

The changing of the guard.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522872828

0522872824

OCLC:

1496393642