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Secret Australia A: Revealed by the Wikileaks Exposes

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Secret Australia A: Revealed by the Wikileaks Exposes

SKU: 9781925835939 Category: Product ID: 71087

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Title: Secret Australia A: Revealed by the Wikileaks Exposes
Author: RUBY FELICITY/CRONAU PETER (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/12/2020
Imprint: MONASH UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
Price: $29.95
Publishing status: Active

In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world as battling sports stars, dependable ally or good international citizen WikiLeaks has shown us a startlingly different story.

This is an Australia that officials do not want us to see, where the Australian Defence Force's 'information operations' are deployed to maintain public support for our foreign war contributions, where media-wide super injunctions are issued by the government to keep politicians' and major corporations' corruption scandals secret, where the US Embassy prepares profiles of Australian politicians to fine-tune its lobbying and ensure support for the 'right' policies.

The revelations flowing from the releases of millions of secret and confidential official documents by WikiLeaks have helped Australians to better understand why the world is not at peace, why corruption continues to flourish, and why democracy is faltering. This greatest ever leaking of hidden government documents in world history yields knowledge that is essential if Australia, and the rest of the world, is to grapple with the consequences of covert, unaccountable and unfettered power.

Among the contributors are former senator Scott Ludlam, former defence secretary Paul Barratt, lawyers Julian Burnside and Jennifer Robinson, academics Richard Tanter, Benedetta Brevini, John Keane, Suelette Dreyfus, Gerard Goggin and Clinton Fernandes, as well as journalists Andrew Fowler, Quentin Dempster and Helen Razer.

ISBN: 9781925835939
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm

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Dimensions 234 × 153 mm