Felicity Ruby is a PhD candidate at Sydney University undertaking research on surveillance and democracy. She was previously advisor to Scott Ludlam for his first six years in the Australian Senate, headed the UN Office for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and was a policy adviser at the UN Development Fund for Women and at Greenpeace International. Peter Cronau is an investigative journalist and a producer for ABC TV's Four Corners. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the Gold Walkley for his reporting on the political violence in East Timor in 2006. He has also reported for ABC Radios Background Briefing, most recently with the groundbreaking report Pine Gaps role in US warfighting. His forthcoming book is titled The Base: Australias secret role in Americas global wars (ABC Books, 2020).
Sad but true: Eisenhower in his retirement address, Curtis LeMay’s reaction to Cuban missiles and the disclosures in WikiLeaks teach us, as citizens, the need for greater transparency in relation to our dangerous governments. -- The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG Exceptional, illuminating, and deeply disturbing. With commanding breadth this superb collection highlights the dangers to democracy of proliferating information control and official secrecy, exploring the powerful transformative work of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in exposing dark secrets as an exemplar of Australian investigative journalism. His persecution is our shame. -- Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking