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A Secret Australia

Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposes

Felicity Ruby Peter Cronau

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English
Monash Asia Institute
01 December 2020
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.

Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Monash Asia Institute
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm, 
Weight:   400g
ISBN:   9781925835939
ISBN 10:   1925835936
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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).

Reviews for A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposes

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


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