Secret: The Making of Australia's Security State

Brian Toohey

Secret: The Making of Australia's Security State
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Country
Australia
Published
3 September 2019
Pages
400
ISBN
9780522872804

Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State

Brian Toohey

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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