Jamie Walker, Associate Editor of the Australian, “Secret Notes Claim Hawke Informed for US,” 28 June 2021, 1-2 (pp 1-2).

Keywords: Bob Hawke, US informer, diplomatic cables

Cameron Coventry and Senator Nick Xenophon in the Australian Senate Chamber, 2015.

Cameron Coventry in the Australian Senate Chamber in 2015 seated behind his then employer, Senator Nick Xenophon (Independent – South Australia).

Cameron Coventry meets civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Washington, DC, in January, 2013.

George Phillips, b. 1924 (London) b. 2020 (Adelaide)

Former scientific instrument maker at Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Long Range Weapons Establishment, University of Adelaide laboratories and ETSA.

Barbara Louise Phillips, b. Clare (1936) d. Adelaide (2021)

Former midwife, Queen Victoria Hospital/Women’s and Children’s Hospital

In the 1970s, the leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and future Prime Minister of Australia, Robert J. Hawke, was an informer of the United States of America. Using diplomatic cables from official archives, this article shows that Hawke gifted information about the Australian Government, the Australian Labor Party and the…[Read more]

The links between British slavery and South Australia were long overlooked until recent research, fueled by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, revealed the connection. The financial benefits rendered to the new province by British West Indian slavery were considerable. A number of the people who sought the creation of South…[Read more]

Book Review of John Howard, The Menzies Era: The years that shaped modern Australia, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2014, 720pp. RRP: $59.99, ISBN: 9781743097977.

Book review of David Horner, The Spy Catchers (Vol. 1 of the Official History of ASIO), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2014, 735pp. RRP: $59.99, ISBN: 9781743319666.

Book review of Clive Ponting, Churchill, Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1994, 960pp. ISBN: 978- 1856195737

Beneficiaries of British slavery were present in colonial Victoria and provincial South Australia, a link overlooked by successive generations of historians. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, hosted by University College, London, reveals many people in these colonies as having been connected to slave money awarded as compensation…[Read more]

This thesis explores the context in which the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, 1974-1977 came to be. The Whitlam Government wanted to reform the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) so as to depoliticise it and make it more effective in combating genuine threats to the state, including global terrorism. In early 1973…[Read more]