Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO Files

AUSTRALIANA Biography –

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.

• 464 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 21 cm #180325
• • Government policy – Commonwealth
  • Gender relations – Feminism
  • Archives and archiving – Manuscripts and records
  • Politics and Government – Political action – Rallies and marches
  • Politics and Government – Political action – Activism
  • Literature and stories – Authors
  • Politics and Government – Political parties – Australian Labor Party
  • Law enforcement – Police
  • History – Biographies
  • History – Biographies – Indigenous
  • Law enforcement – Police conduct and attitudes

  Subject:

  • Australian Security Intelligence Organisation — Archives
  • Australians — Archives
  • Intelligence service — Australia — History
  • Internal security — Australia — History — 20th century
  • Secret service — Australia — History
  • Australia — Politics and government — 1945-
  • Australian