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Brian Toohey

Canberra Times

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Pine Gap supports nuclear war fighting, not monitoring arms control agreements

Richard Tanter stated in Pearls and Irritations on March 21 in regard to my piece on a former Defence Deputy Secretary, Paul Dibb on 14 February, that...

26.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

Government thrashes our democracy, removes RBA safeguards

The Albanese government is about to free the Reserve Bank of Australia from a rarely used constraint allowing a Treasurer to override a decision of...

01.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

Untruths, the CIA, and Whitlam’s dismissal

A highly regarded commentator on national security, Paul Dibb, has written an astonishing article in the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s The...

13.02.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

Who is the war criminal?

John Howard took Australia into the devastating war of aggression in Iraq in March 2003 but has still not been held accountable. Recently released...

12.01.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

The greedy jaws of national security

With some honourable exceptions, most of the media and the parliament enthusiastically support almost everything the Director General of the...

13.12.2023 9

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

Why ASIS should be abolished

The Australian Secret Intelligence Service was established in 1950 to conduct spying overseas and morally repulsive covert operations. It had a slow...

29.11.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

ASIO and the KGB: New information on Hawke v. Combe

Although ASIO dropped the intercept on Labor’s former national secretary David Combe’s phone after alleged KGB officer Valeriy Ivanov left...

28.11.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

Time for Labor to focus on those who are hurting

It was only in March this year that The Sydney Morning Herald claimed in a series called Red Alert that Australia “faces the real prospect of war...

13.11.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

Threat to democracy: The case for sacking Tange and Pezzullo

A good case exists for sacking the head of the Home Affairs department Michael Pezzullo for taking sides in internal political party matters among...

28.09.2023 8

Pearls and Irritations

Brian Toohey

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