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Who Minds the Minders?

Paul Barratt AO illustrates the culture of ‘plausible deniability’ in Ministers’ offices with a compelling example from his own experience as Secretary of the Department of Defence in 1998. He outlines the ever-increasing confusion...

Trust, but verify

Paul Barratt puts the AWB scandal into its true context. At the very time that the AWB kickbacks were being paid to the Iraqi regime, Australian naval officers were involved in operations to prevent...