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• Title:Australia under surveillance : how should we act? / Frank Moorhouse.
  
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• Author/Creator:Moorhouse, Frank, author.
  
• Published/Created:North Sydney, NSW : Vintage Books, 2014.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KU942.6 .M66 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Australian Security Intelligence Organization.
  Privacy, Right of--Australia.
  Surveillance detection--Australia.
  
• Description:xiv, 298 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Annotation. ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was 17. Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. In 2013 ASIO made new efforts to extend its surveillance powers to internet and mobile phone communication and some other extensions of its powers including the making the issuing of warrants easier. We are just beginning to evolve new attitudes and behaviour appropriate for a society in which nothing can be assumed to be private, especially at the governmental level. At the same time we are trying to discern what it is that constitutes, or not, an offence against national security. We are also facing the question of what degree of terrorist threat we are prepared to endure so as to retain freedoms of expression and what might be loosely called the 'traditional privacies'. The paradox is an old one: which of our rights do we temporarily (or forever) relinquish in order to prevent external threats to our society which is based on such rights? More than ever before, this future is unforeseeable and if in the unforeseeable we see a glimmer of dangerous things we should remember that positive things also can be unforeseeable. We need a renewal of the bargain between the citizen and the secret agencies, as unreliable as it may be, as we all go into the glare and the maze of controlled and uncontrollable data collection and its consequences. At least WikiLeaks and other socially-conscious hackers and whistleblowers will keep us in the picture. We should always offer them our protection. They are all we've got.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780857985972 paperback
  0857985973 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. ASIO Takes an Interest in Me
  2. How ASIO Goes About its Work
  The Doctor Haneef and Doctor Ul-Haque Cases
  3. Right to Remain Silent and to be Represented by a Lawyer
  4. How the Inspector-General Works
  5. I Re-enter the Fray
  6. ASIO and Friends Run Amok
  The Raids and the Cleansing of the Computers
  This Interview Did Not Happen, Sign Here
  7. Liberty v. Safety
  The Dark Conundrum
  8. Remind Me, Why Do We Need Freedom of Expression?
  9. Sticks and Stones
  10. Fighting Words
  11. Crossing of the Line
  12. Interview with Director-General David Irvine
  My File-Keeper
  13. Dangerous Slide
  14. Tell Me Again, Why Do We Need Privacy?
  15. Nihilism
  16. Growth of a Mighty Agency
  17. Civic Dignity.