Secret
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Secret

The Making of Australia's Security State

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eBook - ePub

Secret

The Making of Australia's Security State

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Preface
  7. PART 1: THE CLANDESTINE AGENCIES
  8. PART 2: AN IDEAL PLACE FOR DANGEROUS TESTS AND DANGEROUS BASES
  9. PART 3: ANZUS: THE TREATY WITHOUT A SECURITY GUARANTEE
  10. PART 4: THE WHITLAM ERA
  11. PART 5: AUSTRALIA’S SOVEREIGNTY CLAIMS—THE AMBITIOUS TO THE SUPINE
  12. PART 6: TRYING TO PLUG THE LEAKS
  13. PART 7: LIBERTY LOST
  14. PART 8: THIRTEEN WARS—ONLY ONE A WAR OF NECESSITY FOR AUSTRALIA
  15. PART 9: NUCLEAR RISKS ARE EVER PRESENT
  16. PART 10: THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
  17. Acknowledgements and Observations
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index