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Dirty secrets : our ASIO files / edited by Meredith Burgmann.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Kensington, NSW : New South Books, 2014.Description: 464 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781742231402
Other title:
  • Our ASIO files
  • Our Australian Security Intelligence Organisation files
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 327.120994 23
  • 327.1294 23
LOC classification:
  • JQ4029.I6 D57 2014
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Files -- 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 / David Stratton -- 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 -- The 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) / 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 --
Contents note continued: 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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 327.120994 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67218

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: The Files -- 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 / David Stratton -- 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 -- The 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) / 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 --

Contents note continued: 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.

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