Tag: Brian Toohey

Response to issues raised in ‘Sub-Imperial State, Australian Dirty Work’

Richard Tanter responds to Clinton Fernandes' review of Brian Toohey's book Secret: The Making of Australia's Security State

Sub-Imperial State: Australian Dirty Work

The instruments of statecraft, as exposed by Brian Toohey and Bernard Collaery, are wielded in the interests of those with real power: elite elements in the private sector and the US national-security state, which defends a global order protective of its interests.