عنوان

Dirty secrets :

1742231403

9781742231402

b390618

Dirty secrets :

[Book]

our ASIO files

edited by Meredith Burgmann.

Sydney, New South Wales

NewSouth,

2014.

464 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes index.

Introduction / Meredith Burgmann -- How to read your ASIO file / David McKnight -- The Commos and me / Michael Kirby -- Number C/57/61: what ASIO knew / Anne Summers -- ASIO, the Aboriginal Movement and me / Gary Foley -- The man in the red tie (in conversation with Meredith Burgmann) / David Stratton -- Fear and loathing in the fifties / Joan Bielski -- Why me? / Dennis Altman -- Joining the dots: C/58/63 / Rowan Cahill -- I was a teenage Bolshevik / Phillip Adams -- My life in a distorting mirror / Jean McLean -- Smashing the state / Jack Waterford -- Hardy way (by Alan Hardy) / Frank Hardy -- Very interested In theatrics / Alan Hardy -- My own 'pink file' / Lex Watson -- A Bacon family affair (by Wendy Bacon) / Wendy and Jim Bacon -- State affairs and love affairs / Mark Aarons -- They just didn't care (with Heather Goodall) / Kevin Cook -- ASIO and the Postmaster-General / Colin Cooper -- Clive Raleigh Evatt and ASIO (by Elizabeth Evatt) / Clive Evatt -- Two cheers for ASIO! / Frances Letters -- I was a teenage Trotskyist (in conversation with Meredith Burgmann) / Verity Burgmann -- The not-so-secret lives of others / Peter Murphy -- My lacklustre life according to ASIO / Tony Reeves -- Postcards from the secret police / Tim Anderson -- Lack of evidence proves nothing / Penny Lockwood -- The Red with the green thumb (by Helen Randerson) / Peter Cundall -- The secret life of B/77/26 (and friends) / Meredith Burgmann.

In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby and Anne Summers confront and in some cases reclaim their pasts.",,,,,"In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby and Anne Summers confront and in some cases reclaim their pasts.

Archives; History

Meredith Burgmann

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