A Secret Australia

Author : Felicity Ruby,Peter Cronau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925835936

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A Secret Australia by Felicity Ruby,Peter Cronau Pdf

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. 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.

Author : John Pilger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781407086323

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A Secret Country by John Pilger Pdf

Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama.

Author : Brian Toohey
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780522872828

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Secret by Brian Toohey Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth Gordon McIntyre
Publisher : Medindie ; London : Souvenir Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015026995004

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The Secret Discovery of Australia by Kenneth Gordon McIntyre Pdf

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459620032

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The Secret River by Kate Grenville Pdf

'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...

Author : Kim McGrath
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781925435740

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Crossing the Line by Kim McGrath Pdf

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth. With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. Australia did nothing to stop Indonesia’s devastating occupation of East Timor, when – on our doorstep – 200,000 lives were lost from a population of 650,000. Instead, our government colluded with Indonesia to secure more favourable maritime boundaries. Even today, Australia claims resources that, by international law, should belong to its neighbour – a young country still recovering from catastrophe and in desperate need of income. Crossing the Line is a long-overdue exposé of the most shameful episode in recent Australian history. ‘Revelatory, extraordinary and compelling – an absolute must-read.’ —Peter Garrett ‘Crossing the Line is an unassailable exposé of Australia’s ruthless pursuit of resources in the Timor Sea. A timely and definitive book.’ —José Ramos-Horta ‘Kim McGrath has trawled the national archives to produce the smoking gun on Australia’s callous betrayal of the people who supported our commandos in World War II, and on the immoral and unlawful appropriation of their oil.’ —Paul Cleary Kim McGrath has been published in the Monthly and has long experience working in government and policy development. She is Research Director at the Bracks Timor-Leste Governance Project, which provides policy advice to the Timor-Leste government.

Author : Judith Brett
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781925626810

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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage by Judith Brett Pdf

It’s compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stations, and election parties that spill over into Sunday morning. But how did this come to be: when and why was voting in Australia made compulsory? How has this affected our politics? And how else is the way we vote different from other democracies? Lively and inspiring, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage is a landmark account of the character of Australian democracy by the celebrated historian Judith Brett, the prize-winning biographer of Alfred Deakin.

Author : Jenny Ackland
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925268089

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The Secret Son by Jenny Ackland Pdf

I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like.This is a boy in the skin of a man.I know the boy is innocent, that it's his family soul which is guilty. An old woman sits waiting in a village that clings to a Turkish mountainside, where the women weave rugs, make tea and keep blood secrets that span generations. Berna can see what others cannot, so her secrets are deeper and darker than most. It is time for her to tell her story, even though the man for whom her words are meant won't hear them. It is time for the truth to be told. Nearly a hundred years before, her father James had come to the village on the back of a donkey, gravely ill, rescued from the abandoned trenches of Gallipoli by a Turkish boy whose life he had earlier spared. James made his life there, never returning to Australia and never realising that his own father was indeed the near-mythical bushranger that the gossips had hinted at when he'd been a boy growing up in Beechworth. Now, as Berna waits, a young man from Melbourne approaches to visit his parents' village, against the vehement opposition of his cursed, tight-lipped grandfather. What is the astonishing story behind the dark deeds that connect the two men, unknown to each other and living almost a century apart? The Secret Son is a remarkable debut, a dazzlingly original, audacious and exhilarating novel. At once joyous and haunting, it is a moving meditation on love, honour and belonging, as well as a story about the strength of women and what it means to be a good man.

Author : Hal G. P. Colebatch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648996158

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Australia's Secret War by Hal G. P. Colebatch Pdf

Author : Michael Veitch
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780733648496

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Australia's Secret Army by Michael Veitch Pdf

Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. They were mostly all unpaid volunteers whose job it was simply to observe and report on foreign shipping and aeroplane movements. It was never envisaged that the Coast Watchers would do any fighting, nor operate inside enemy-occupied territory. But when World War II came to the Pacific, that is exactly what they ended up doing, becoming, in effect, Australia's secret army. Fully cognisant of their fate should they be caught, they nonetheless battled not just the enemy, but constant exhaustion, tropical disease, and the ever-present spectre of capture, torture and death. Without the Coast Watchers and the crucial intelligence they provided, key moments in the war could have turned out very differently. This is the story of these unsung heroes who risked their lives - and sometimes lost them - in the service of their country.

Author : Kate Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439152812

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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Pdf

Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures. By the best-selling author of The Distant Hours. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

Author : Geraldine Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780670025770

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The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks Pdf

Based on the story of King David, traces his journey from an obscure shepherd to a hero and king before his fall.

Author : Ben Mckelvey
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780733645426

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Mosul by Ben Mckelvey Pdf

From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line. Taking us from the suburbs of western Sydney and Australia's military army bases, to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, this is a remarkable book that reveals the as-yet untold story of the battle for Mosul and the secret involvement of Australians on both sides of the war - both our Commandos and Australian ISIS fighters. Mosul details the rise of ISIS influence in Australia, the Iran and Australia allegiance to fight Daesh and shows what led up to the battle and the ramifications that are still being felt at home - by our soldiers and the victims of that war. Ben Mckelvey has extraordinary access to SOOCOMD/2COMMANDO units - the most decorated modern Australian fighting unit; ISOF - Iraq's premier fighters; Yazidis women who had been slaves of ISIS; returned Commandos and their devastated families, and explains how petty criminals in Western Sydney became some of our worst jihadists who took their families to Iraq to fight for ISIS. Focusing on the stories of key figures like 2 Commando's Ian Turner and one of Australia's most infamous Jihadist, Khaled Sharrouf, Mckelvey takes us the heart of this brutal battle and brings history to life in an honest, thoughtful and compelling examination of modern warfare. A must-read for anyone interested in modern military history.

Author : Dilly Court
Publisher : Random House
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409023432

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A Mother's Secret by Dilly Court Pdf

When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower, knowing she must keep the secret of her child's birth for ever. Reluctantly she sends her beloved daughter to a foster mother in Cripplegate, little realising she has entrusted Cassy's care to Biddy Henchard, a woman who runs a notorious baby farm in an area full of poverty and disease. Despite her terrible upbringing, Cassy survives the old woman's cruel neglect. All the while she dreams of a mother she has never known, hoping she will come and save her from her dreadful fate. But when Biddy dies suddenly, ten-year-old Cassy finds herself destitute and with little hope of ever finding the mother she so longs for...

Author : Caroline Beecham
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760636043

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Eleanor's Secret by Caroline Beecham Pdf

An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love... London, 1942 When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artists Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack Valante, only to be separated by his sudden posting overseas. Melbourne, 2010 Although reluctant to leave her family at home, Kathryn can't refuse her grandmother Eleanor's request to travel to London to help her return a precious painting to its artist. But when the search uncovers a long-held family secret, Kathryn has to make a choice to return home or risk her family's future, as Eleanor shows her that safeguarding the future is sometimes worth more than protecting the past. Eleanor's Secret is at once a surprising mystery and compelling love story.