{"id":35390,"date":"2014-01-04T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=35390"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:45:42","slug":"asio-is-really-interesting-to-this-person-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=35390","title":{"rendered":"ASIO is really interesting to this person too …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Persons of Interest<\/em> is a three-part documentary on ASIO which commences screening on SBS on Tuesday, January 7 at 8.30pm. I haven’t seen it yet but Dr Cam and I interviewed filmmaker Haydn Keenan (and academic Victoria Stead about PNG and refugees) back in July for the SUWA Show — you can listen to that interview here<\/a> (13:30). As Haydn points out, it’s less a history of ASIO than an account of its activities as told through the personal histories of four ‘persons of interest’: Gary Foley, Frank Hardy, Albert Langer (Arthur Dent)<\/strike> Michael Hyde and Roger Milliss. (Of related interest: East Timor institutes proceedings against Australia in relation to documents seized from office of Australian lawyer<\/a>, December 24, 2103, re ASIO raid of December 3 on the office of Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery.)<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : ASIO’s all-seeing eye<\/a>, Rick Feneley, The Age<\/em>, January 3, 2014 | Film buff David Stratton’s starring role on ASIO spy cam<\/a>, The Age<\/em>, January 4, 2013 | Persons of interest caught in ASIO’s net<\/a>, The Australian<\/em>, January 4, 2013.<\/p>\n

Otherwise : Your rights with ASIO \u2013 advice for activists (Dale Mills)<\/a> (May 16, 2013) | ASIO &\/Or Anarchy<\/a> (November 14, 2012) | Nicola Roxon, ASIO, and a growing number of links across some sort of groups who are anarchist, others who meld into some religious, sometimes\u2026<\/a> (April 17, 2012) | ASIO, fascism and anti-fascism (cont.)<\/a> (on October 18, 2011) | ASIO, fascism and anti-fascism<\/a> (October 12, 2011) | ASIO ~versus~ WikiLeaks : The WikiLeaks Amendment<\/a> (July 7, 2011) | Three cheers and a loud huzzah for The WikiLeaks Amendment!<\/a> (July 5, 2011) …<\/p>\n

For a broader historical view, see<\/em> Jenny Hocking, Beyond Terrorism<\/em> (Allen & Unwin, 1993) and Frank Cain, The Origins of Political Surveillance in Australia<\/em> (Angus & Robertson, 1993).<\/p>\n