"How a former intelligence officer became a whistleblower on a collision course with his country's government. On 11 March 2003, Andrew Wilkie resigned from Australia’s senior intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments, in protest over the looming Iraq war. He was the only serving Intelligence Officer from the Coalition of the Willing--the US, UK and Australia--to do so, and his dramatic action was reported throughout the world. In Axis of Deceit, Wilkie offers timely insights into the world of international intelligence and details of his life as a spook, in the lead-up to a controversial and divisive war. Wilkie’s pre-war statements have proven remarkably accurate: he was convinced Iraq did not pose a serious enough security threat to justify a war. In particular, he assessed * Iraq’s military to be weak * Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction program to be disjointed and contained * no evidence of Iraq's active co-operation with al Quaida Wilkie assesses how the case for war was made in Washington, London and Canberra and explains how the three governments routinely skewed, spun and fabricated the relevant intelligence.

Axis of Deceit

History

Wilkie, Andrew

Australia & Oceania

Black Inc.

Australia's foreign policy has long been overshadowed in our history by our anxiety about national defence. It was hampered by being required always to ensure that it did not upset those great and powerful friends, Britain and the United States. This is an inquiry into Australia's foreign policy, prompted by contemporary events.

Fatal Attraction

Military

Civil Passions: Selected Writings

Martin Krygier

Paul Keating once said, 'Change the government and you change the country'. Just imagine for a moment that you were in conversation with the new PM what would you tell him about your expectations and hopes for Australia's future? In Dear Mr Rudd, leading Australian thinkers offer essays on key areas of interest: climate change, the economy, human rights, the republic, water and much more besides. Each letter is passionate and imaginative and will create discussion and debate. Contributors include Robert Manne, Mark McKenna, Pat Dodson, Geoff Gallop, Harry Evans, Patrick Weller, Mark Aarons, Hugh White, William Maley, Martin Krygier, Clive Hamilton, Mike Young, Andrew Charlton, Bill Bowtell   Anne Manne, Marcia Langton, Jill Murray, Julian Disney, Simon Marginson and Juliana Engberg.

Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia

Robert Manne (edited by)

The Dreaming & Other Essays

W.E.H. Stanner

Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and nationalistic history, as well as a substantial essay on Aboriginal dispossession and the history wars. In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions and deepens our sense of Australia's development from convict society to distinctive democracy. 'one of the nation's most independent and original historians' - Geoffrey Blainey 'John Hirst is the gadfly of Australian history, stinging and provocative' - Stuart Macintyre 'essential reading for those who want to ponder, let alone write and teach about, Australian history' - Robert Murray, The Weekend Australian

Sense & Nonsense in Australian History (Black Inc. Agenda)

Hirst, Reader in History John

Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency

robert-manne

Random Life: Cartoons by Judy Horacek

Judy Horacek

The story of Michael Smith's record breaking solo circumnavigation in the tiny flying boat Southern Sun.

Voyage of the Southern Sun

MICHAEL SMITH

Aaron, Patrick

The saga of Australia continues with ... GIRT NATION 
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation -an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. 
Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan 'like sand before the gale'. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the 'Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for!' 
Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrison's communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power.

Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3

HUNT, David

Humor & Entertainment

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