Meredith Burgmann

Burgmann, Meredith

Dirty Secrets: Our Asio Files, edited by Meredith Burgmann

REVIEW ADDED: Mon, 02/03/2015 - 2:04pm by Karen Chisholm

Less of a review / more of a comment but I cannot tell you how "relieved" we should all be to know that regardless of the potential (or lack thereof) of threat to Australia, we have organisations like ASIO. Who in most examples of the files discussed in this book seems to have spent an...Read more

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Meredith Burgmann

Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO Files

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 04/09/2016 - 12:19pm by Karen Chisholm

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, Peter Cundall, Gary...Read more