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David McKnight Review of Sandra Hogan, With My Little Eye : The Incredible True Story of a Family of Spies in the Suburbs and of John Fahey, Traitors and Spies: Espionage and Corruption in High Places in Australia, 1901–50 single work  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 David McKnight Review of Sandra Hogan, With My Little Eye : The Incredible True Story of a Family of Spies in the Suburbs and of John Fahey, Traitors and Spies: Espionage and Corruption in High Places in Australia, 1901–50
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'The seemingly never-ending public fascination with spies and espionage has produced two books that could not be more different. One is a family drama that verges on soap opera, the other, a scholarly study that points an accusatory finger. The subtitle of Sandra Hogan’s book, With My Little Eye, gives an accurate flavour of what is to come: ‘The Incredible True Story of a Family of Spies in the Suburbs’. It is over the top and yet true. Also over the top and more polemical and controversial is John Fahey’s Traitors and Spies. (Introduction)
 

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  • Also reviews : Traitors and Spies : Espionage and Corruption in High Places in Australia, 1901–50 by John Fahey

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    y separately published work icon Australian Journal of Biography and History Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery no. 6 2022 24621842 2022 periodical issue

    'This special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, uses biographical approaches to explore how British slavery shaped the Australian colonies. It is the first stand-alone journal issue to feature an emerging body of historical work tracing the movement of people, investment and ideas from the Caribbean to Australia. Seven refereed articles and a roundtable discussion show how investment, imperial aspiration and migration turned towards Britain's ‘Second Empire’ in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.' (Description Introduction)

         2022     pg. 223-225
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