A Secret Australia. Revealed By The WikiLeaks Exposes
Ruby Felicity, Cronau Peter
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition
Description: 255 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: 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 nations 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 Forces 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
(226746)
