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A Secret Country

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by John Pilger

ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 65, 233, 237, 290, 295–307

  Abeles, Lady ‘Kitty’, 258

  Abeles, Sir Peter, 254–9, 267, 276, 318–19

  Aboriginal Advancement Council, 58

  Aboriginal National Theatre Trust, 73

  Aborigines, 21–82; artists, 36–40, 62–3, 72–3; and Ayers Rock, 170; birth rate, 64; at Bondi beach, 19–20; cemeteries, 45, 67; children, 23–4, 67–73; deaths and illnesses, 32, 34–5, 38–9, 45–6, 83; deaths in police custody, 54–62, 73; early civilisation, 27–30; killing of, 31–5, 50–4; at La Perouse, 23–5; land rights movement, 42–51, 63–4, 84–5; life expectancy, 45–6; population figures, 64, 78; settlements near nuclear test site, 169–74; Sun article on, 267; in textbooks, 25–7

  Aborigines Progressive Association, 78

  Aborigines Protection Board, 68, 69

  Aborigines Protection Society, 31

  abortions, 16

  Age: see Melbourne Age

  airline industry, 267, 318–19

  Alabama (United States), 46

  Alice Springs, 36–9, 44–5, 197

  All Quiet on the Western Front, 147

  Allcorp Cleaning Services, 319

  Allende, Salvador, 194, 204, 212

  Alpuget, Blanche d’, 255, 311

  Anderson, Warren, 274–5

  Angleton, James Jesus, 192, 198, 220, 231

  Ansett airline, 256, 259, 267–8, 319

  Anthony, Doug, 221

  Anthony Hordens (department store), 89

  Anti-Slavery Society, 54, 79

  ANU (Australian National University), 125, 131

  Anzac Day, 142

  ANZUS Pact, 165, 196, 363

  Arena, Franca, 135–6

  Argus (newspaper), 142

  artists, Aboriginal, 36–40, 62–3, 72–3

  Ashbolt, Alan, 308

  Asian immigrants, 119–38

  ASIO (Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation), 160, 166, 190–4, 204–5, 207, 209, 218, 220–1, 222, 228, 283

  ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service), 193–4, 220, 316

  Askin, Sir Robert, 254–5, 259

  assimilation policy, 107

  Assisted Passage Scheme, 111–12

  Association for Cultural Freedom, 234

  Atorino, Ed, 5

  Attlee, Clement, 168

  Australian, 49, 125, 233, 236, 265, 270, 302

  Australian Arbitration Commission, 118

  Australian Commission for Cultural Freedom, 215

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation: see ABC

  Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 129, 278, 291

  Australian Journalists’ Association, 278, 281, 309

  Australian National Dictionary, 27

  Australian Press Council, 279

  Ayers Rock, 169–70

  Bacon, Wendy, 282, 305

  balance of payments, 276

  Ball, Desmond, 194–5, 201, 363

  ‘Baits’ (immigrants from Baltic states), 104–7, 130

  Bandler, Faith, 166, 303

  Barak (Yarra Yarra elder), 68

  Barbour, Peter, 220

  Barnard, Lance, 188, 202

  Barnard, Marjorie, 330

  Barrington, George, 99

  Basher Gang, 150, 355

  Battarbee, Rex, 39

  Bavandra, Dr Timoci, 363

  Bayley, Edwin R., 235

  Because a White Man’ll Never Do It (Gilbert), 73

  Beeston, John, 305

  Bendigo, 119, 123

  Bennelong Point, Sydney, 101, 115

  Bentham, Jeremy, 92

  Bermingham, Craig, 346

  Bernays, Edward, 5

  Bicentenary celebrations, 76–80

  Bingara: Myall Creek massacre at, 51–4

  Bissell, Richard, 225, 246–8

  Bjelke-Petersen, Sir Johannes, 1, 46, 227–8, 292, 321–3

  Black, Conrad, 312–14

  Black, Edwin, 210

  Blainey, Geoffrey, 124–5, 131, 133

  Blakemore, Michael, 18

  Bloomfield, Ray, 145

  ‘boat people’, 123

  Bobbin Up (Hewett), 330

  Bonanza Class, 333–4

  Bond, Alan, 4, 264, 272, 276, 286–94, 308, 320–5

  Bond, Eileen, 289

  Bondi beach, 9–20

  Bonegilla migrant camp, 112–14, 135

  Boney, Lloyd, 59–60

  Booker, Malcolm, 154, 155

  ‘Botany case’, 260

  Bowman, David, 282, 285, 315–17

  Boyce, Christopher, 212–15, 230, 236, 252

  Boyer, Al, 349

  Bradley, Lieutenant, 32

  Brandt, Willy, 220

  Brereton, Laurie, 260

  Briggs, Geraldine, 67

  Britain, 331; immigrants from, 102–3, 111; immigrants in, 128–9; and the Second World War, 154–5, 156; and the Thatcher Government, 309–10

  Brogan, Sir Mervyn, 179

  Broken Hill, 4, 340–8

  Brookfield, Percy, 347–8

  Brooks, Geraldine, 329–30

  Brown, Norman, 150

  Bundy, William, 182

  Burger, Dr Julian, 54

  Burgmann, Verity, 3

  Burke, Brian, 47, 321

  Burns, Creighton, 312

  Burton, Dr John, 158, 159, 160

  Burton, Tom, 313

  Bush, George, 211, 235, 353, 370

  Business International, 252–3

  Butlin, Noel, 80

  Byron, Pam, 345, 347

  Cain, John, 312

  Cairns, Dr Jim, 189, 191, 204, 206–7, 218

  Calcagno, Carlo and Maria, 115–16, 136

  Calwell, Arthur, 87, 102, 104, 111, 130

  Cambodia, 194, 202, 270, 365

  Cameron, Clyde, 203, 229, 249, 251

  Cameron, James, 164

  Campbelltown, Sydney, 335, 337–9

  Canberra, 297–8; Aboriginal rally in, 64–5

  Canberra Times, 300, 311

  Captive Press, The (Bowman), 315–17

  Carey, Alex, 181

  Carmichael, Alex, 258, 259

  Carroll, Alan, 253

  Carter, Jimmy, 230, 238, 267–8

  Casey, Lord, 165

  Casey, Ron, 129, 131, 133

  Casey, William, 190

  Cassidy, Barrie, 297, 299, 301

  Castellorizia (Greek island), 114

  Catholics: in Bondi, 12

  Caulfield’s Lagoon: massacre of Aborigines at, 52–3

  Chadwick, Paul, 279, 285

  Chifley, Ben, 104, 157, 160, 161, 166, 254, 332

  children: Aboriginal, 23, 65–73; in poverty, 5, 334–6

  Chile: Allende Government, overthrow of, 194, 204, 212–13, 222, 251, 364; investment in, 4; refugees from, 117, 190

  China, 176, 180; Boxer Rebellion, 142

  Chinese immigrants, 119–23

  Choong, Mrs, 138

  Christopher, Warren, 230

  Christopherson, John, 77

  Chulung, Frank, 77

  Churchill, Winston, 91, 154, 156

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 185, 187–238, 362–5; Australian trade unions, 246–51; and Bob Hawke, 251–2; and the LCPA, 364–5; and the loans affair, 207–12; and Vietnam, 175

  Cilento, Sir Raphael, 26

  citizenship, 134–6; ceremonies, 136–8

  Clark, Ed, 201

  Clark, Manning, 141, 182, 303, 306

  Clark, Reg, 16–17

  Cline, Dr Ray, 222

  Coates, George, 147

  Coe, Paul, 63

  Colby, William, 185, 210, 211, 219, 235

  Cold War Two and Australia (Phillips), 160

  Coldicutt, Ken, 188, 227

  Collins, Jock, 123, 125

  Combe, David, 256

  Comerford, Jim, 150

  Commerce International, 206, 318

  Communist Party of Australia: referendum on, 166

  Connell, Laurie ‘Last Resort’, 311, 320

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nbsp; Connolly, Patrick, 172

  Connor, Rex, 205, 218

  conscription: ending of, 189; and the Vietnam War, 180; women’s campaign against (1916), 145–6

  convicts, 90–101; women, 93–101

  Cook, Mrs Esme, 9–10

  Cootamundra Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, 69

  Cope, Bill, 127

  Corbett, Helen, 65

  Cordell, Michael, 81

  Corson, William, 200

  Costigan Commission, 317–18

  County Securities Australia, 286

  Cousins, Leila, 126

  Coxsedge, Joan, 188, 227

  Crimes of Patriots, The (Kwitny), 215–16

  Crocodile Dundee (film), 100, 307

  Crowley, Robert, 198

  CSD (Combined Studies Division), 177

  Csidei, Bela, 257

  Cuba, 207, 210

  Cullen, Peter, 81–2

  Curlewis, Jean, 13

  currawongs: on Bondi, 9–10

  Curtin, John, 156, 157, 158, 159, 188

  Cusack, Dymphna, 330

  D’Arcy, Bill, 236

  Daily Mirror (Sydney), 217, 270, 277

  Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 101

  Dampier, William, 31

  Danby, Michael, 306

  Darling, Ralph, 264

  Davey, Des, 174

  Davis, Ian, 300

  Dawe, Bruce, 34

  Day, Brian, 177–8

  Day, David, 156

  ‘Death in Custody’ (painting), 73

  Democratic Labor Party (DLP), 167, 215

  Depression (1930s), 152, 161, 272, 351

  Devanney, Jean, 330

  Displaced Persons programme, 104–111, 129

  doctors: immigrant, 129

  Dodson, Pat, 66–7, 83

  Domican, Tom, 275

  Dorrance, John C., 235

  Dougherty, Martin, 311

  Dougherty, Tom, 247

  Douglas-Home, Charles, 265

  ‘dreaming tracks’ (Aboriginal), 29

  DSD (Defence Signals Directorate), 194–5, 223

  Duffy, Michael, 277

  Dulles, John Foster, 164

  Dunstan, Don, 190–1

  Dupain, Max, 19

  Easson, Michael, 364

  economic policies: and the Great Depression, 152; Government, 271–2, 275–6, 333–4, 359–61; New Zealand Government, 370–2

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 175, 247

  Eldridge, J. C., 152

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 39, 161, 229, 254; oath of allegiance to, 135–7

  Ellercamp, Paul, 297

  Elliott, John, 131, 272, 288

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 26

  Enderby, Kep, 204

  Evans, Gareth, 48, 133, 316, 317, 366, 370

  Evans, Neil, 209

  Evatt, Dr Herbert Vere, 156, 157, 159, 163, 166, 370

  Eye, The, 283, 315

  Fairfax, James, 282, 311

  Fairfax, Sir Warwick and Lady Mary, 244

  Fairfax, Warwick ‘Young Wokka’, 311

  Fairfax organisation, 264, 281, 290, 311–14

  Fairhall, Alan, 199

  Falklands War, 266, 269

  Family Reunion Programme, 126, 130

  Fancher, Henry Wiley, 1, 228

  Farquhar, Murray, 260

  Farrell, ‘Bumper’, 16

  Fatal Shore, The (Hughes), 2, 93

  Feiffer, Jules, 327

  Female Eunuch, The (Greer), 183

  Female Factory, 94

  Ferguson, Bill, 78

  Ferguson, Tony, 296, 301, 303

  Fesl, Eve, 50, 75

  Fiji, 363

  ‘Fiona’ (car), 15–16

  First World War, 142–7, 149

  Fishlock, Trevor, 7

  Fitzgerald, Ross, 80

  Fitzgerald, Tony, 322

  FitzGerald Report, 130, 133

  Fitzjames, Michael, 283

  Flynn, Joseph, 208

  Flynn, Sonny, 52

  Fokkema, Gerrit, 170

  Foley, Gary, 65

  Foreign Takeovers Act, 277, 278, 279–80

  Four Corners (TV programme), 281, 290, 307

  France, 331; fascism in, 131; testing of nuclear weapons, 365, 366

  Franklin, Miles, 330

  Fraser, Malcolm, 44, 124, 131, 208, 218, 223, 227, 228, 234–5, 242–3, 313

  Fratianno, Jimmy ‘the Weasel’, 257

  Freney, Denis, 231

  Frontier (Reynolds), 80

  Game, Sir Philip, 153

  Gander, Bob, 137

  Georgetown International Labor Programme, 364

  Germany, 131, 331

  Gilbert, Kevin, 73

  Gittins, Ross, 309–10

  Glynn, Freda, 74, 75

  gold diggers: Chinese, 119, 121–3

  Goldberg, Arthur J. (‘Harry’), 187, 247–8, 250

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 374

  Gorton, John, 139, 179, 199

  Governor-General: office of, 356–9

  Gray, Harry, 268

  Greek immigrants, 112

  Green, Marshall, 139, 203, 218, 235, 246, 251

  Greer, Germaine, 183, 233

  Grenada, US invasion of, 269

  Grenville, John, 246, 250

  Grodin, Nancy, 210

  Guilty Secrets (Pullan), 263

  Gurindji people, 43, 44, 65

  Haildary, Zalmai, 129

  Hall, Edward Smith, 51, 263–4

  Hall, Richard, 190, 216, 217, 229

  Hand, Michael, 208, 209

  Harant, Gerry, 188, 227

  Harries, Owen, 234

  Harris, George, 206, 207

  Harris, Stewart, 64–5, 81

  Harrison, Joe, 215

  Harvard Training Programme, 248

  Hasluck, Sir Paul, 216

  Hatton, John, 255

  Haupt, Robert, 81, 283

  Hawke, Bob, 79, 83, 130, 133, 227, 239, 241–5, 250–326; and Aboriginal land rights, 46, 47, 48, 49; becomes Prime Minister, 253; campaign for ACTU presidency, 250–2; and Eddie Kornhauser, 323; J.P.’s Melbourne meeting with, 241, 262; J.P.’s television interview with (1987), 297–304; and Kerry Packer, 313; and the LCPA, 364–5; libel actions, 311; meeting with Fairfaxes, 244; and the MX missile incident, 271, 362; and Rupert Murdoch, 261–2, 265, 276–88; third election campaign, 307–8; as trade-union lawyer, 243; and the United States, 362; and Whitlam, 227

  Hawke Government: and Aboriginal deaths in custody, 58–60; economic policies, 271–2, 275–81, 333–4, 359–61; and immigration, 130–8

  Hawkesbury (river), 32

  Hayden, Bill, 87, 134, 232, 253, 278, 281, 299, 365, 367; as Governor-General, 358–9

  Helliwell, Paul, 207

  Henderson, Gerard, 233–4, 306

  Hepworth, John, 303

  Herald: see Melbourne Herald

  Herman, Mayor Lew, 137–8

  Heseltine, Michael, 269

  Hewett, Dorothy, 162, 303, 330

  Hewett, Tony, 60, 81

  Hickie, David, 255, 282

  Highfield, John, 303

  Hill, David, 296–7, 301–5, 307, 326

  Hilton Hotel deal, 291

  Hinze, Russ, 228, 323

  history: Australian, 2–4, 24–7, 53–4, 84

  History of Australia (Clark), 182

  History of Australian Land Settlement (Roberts), 27

  Hitler, Adolf, 33, 46, 154

  Ho Chi Minh, 175

  Hogan, John, 288

  Hogan, Paul, 11, 335

  Holding, Clyde, 46, 48, 49, 50

  Holt, Harold, 179, 199, 201

  Holten, H. R., 199

  home ownership, 336

  homeless children, 5, 334–6

  Hopetoun, Earl of, 141, 147

  Horin, Adele, 282, 334

  Home, Donald, 146, 182

  Houghton, Bernie, 209

  House of Commons Select Committee (1838), 42, 87, 95–6

  housing, 329–31, 336–7

  Howard, John, 132, 234, 277, 278

  Hugen
berg, Aldred, 315

  Hughes, Billy, 145, 146

  Hughes, Robert, 2, 93, 94, 233

  Hughes, Wilfred Kent, 164

  Hungarian refugees, 105

  Hunter Valley, 150, 288, 355

  Hurley, David, 319

  Hussein, Saddam, 306, 368, 369

  Hutton, John, 173

  Huxley, Aldous, 5

  Illawara Mercury, 81

  immigrants: Asian, 119–38; at Bondi beach, 14; British, 102, 103, 111; at Broken Hill, 344; Chilean, 117, 190; Chinese, 119–23; Italian, 111, 116–17; Turkish, 1–2, 118, 128; Vietnamese, 118, 124, 125, 126

  immigration: post-war policies, 103–138

  Imparja Television, 74–6

  Indonesia, 31, 190, 203, 223, 249, 368–70

  infant mortality rates: central Australia, 38

  Inmam, Bobby, 212

  ‘Institute of Public Affairs’, 233, 234

  intelligence services: see ASIO; ASIS; CIA; DSD; JIO

  International Monetary Fund, 158, 361

  Italian immigrants, 111–16, 117

  Jackson, Keith, 302

  Jacobson, Howard, 261

  James, Henry, 6

  Japan, 155, 156, 157, 202, 360

  Japanese tourists, 170, 349

  Jay Creek: visit to, 40–2

  ‘Jay Creek Country’ (painting), 37, 40

  Jews, 12, 119; and immigration policies, 104–5

  JIO (Joint Intelligence Organisation), 195

  Jockel, Gordon, 176

  Joe McCarthy and the Press (Bayley), 235

  John, Elton, 266

  John Barry (convict ship), 92, 93

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 139, 181, 182, 199, 201

  Jones, Hazel, 349

  Kalantzis, Mary, 127

  Kalkadoons: extermination of, 33–4

  Kampuchea: see Cambodia

  kangaroos: red, 168

  Kealy, P. L., 200

  Kearsley, Bob, 301, 302, 304

  Keating, Paul, 271, 273–6, 277, 280–2, 286, 289, 305, 312, 321, 324, 333, 353, 356, 359; and Abeles, 319

  Keenan, Andrew, 314

  Kelly, Mike, 349

  Kemp, Jack, 268

  Kennedy, Edward, 267

  Kennedy, John F., 175

  Kent, Bruce, 6

  Kerin, John, 313

  Kerr, Sir John, 44, 215–18, 222–4, 228, 229, 233, 237, 238, 242, 355

  Khemlani, Tirath, 205, 207, 208, 218

  Kiernan, Thomas, 265, 268

  Kinchella Home for Aboriginal Boys, 69

  King, Harry and Kath, 349–52

  Kirk, Jim, 135

  Kissinger, Henry, 222

  Knightley, Phillip, 265

  Korean War, 111, 164, 166

  Kornhauser, Eddie, 323

  Kundera, Milan, 238

  Kurri Kurri, 147, 150–2

  Kwitny, Jonathan, 215–16, 234

  La Perouse, 23–4

  labour movement, 331–2

  Lack, Glem, 26

  Lamb, Sir Larry, 265

  Lambert, George, 147

  Lambing Flat gold field, 121–2

  land rights movement, 42–50, 63, 83–4, 370

  Landsdale, Edward, 175

  Lang, Jack, 107, 152–3

 

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