A Unique History of Dissent: Persons of Interest

It can be unnerving – and disempowering – to learn that a government agency regularly subjects individuals to surveillance and keeps irrevocable records of its findings. But as Julia Scott-Stevenson argues, in watching these sinister snippets of history, we can better understand Australia's political past and present.

Additional keywords: ASIO, Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation, Haydn Keenan, Frank Hardy, Alan Hardy, Roger Milliss, Bruce Milliss, Communist Party of Australia, Michael Hyde, Gary Foley, activism, protest, Aboriginal, Indigenous, investigative, documentary.