Andrew Wilkie
Author of Axis of Deceit (Black Inc. Agenda)
About the Author
Andrew Wilkie was a lieutenant colonel in the Australian Defence Force before he joined ONA as a Senior Strategic Analyst. From 1999 to 2000, he worked on a range of issues including Kosovo, terrorism, WMD and border protection. He returned to ONA shortly after the September 11 attacks to become show more the Senior Transnational Issues Analyst Since leaving ONA, Andrew Wilkie has been called upon to give evidence at the official UK and Australian inquiries into the case for the Iraq war. He is contesting John Howard's seat of Bennelong for the Greens in the 2004 federal election show less
Works by Andrew Wilkie
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1961-11-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
- Awards and honors
- Sam Adams Award (2007)
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As the blurb for this says, of the entire Coalition of the Willing, he was the only Intelligence Officer to resign, let alone spill the beans. This is the story of the hows, wheres and whys of the fabrication of the reasons for war with Iraq.
He has subsequently become a federal MP, one of the Independents whom Gillard must charm to stay in power. It isn't working all that well. I'm most uneasy about his present crusade which threatens to bring down the government one way or another. The principle is admirable: to save gambling addicts from themselves through an assault on poker machines. If he were willing to go all the way: ban them completely, I can see that might work. But nobody, not even a man so innured to hostile opposition as he is, is brave enough to try that on, in a country which I think has the highest rates of gambling in the world. Those making the money from gambling addiction wield much weight.
Meanwhile, Gillard has a deadline, having agreed to Wilke's demands in order to set up government. She is truly between a rock and a hard place.… (more)
He has subsequently become a federal MP, one of the Independents whom Gillard must charm to stay in power. It isn't working all that well. I'm most uneasy about his present crusade which threatens to bring down the government one way or another. The principle is admirable: to save gambling addicts from themselves through an assault on poker machines. If he were willing to go all the way: ban them completely, I can see that might work. But nobody, not even a man so innured to hostile opposition as he is, is brave enough to try that on, in a country which I think has the highest rates of gambling in the world. Those making the money from gambling addiction wield much weight.
Meanwhile, Gillard has a deadline, having agreed to Wilke's demands in order to set up government. She is truly between a rock and a hard place.… (more)
As the blurb for this says, of the entire Coalition of the Willing, he was the only Intelligence Officer to resign, let alone spill the beans. This is the story of the hows, wheres and whys of the fabrication of the reasons for war with Iraq.
He has subsequently become a federal MP, one of the Independents whom Gillard must charm to stay in power. It isn't working all that well. I'm most uneasy about his present crusade which threatens to bring down the government one way or another. The principle is admirable: to save gambling addicts from themselves through an assault on poker machines. If he were willing to go all the way: ban them completely, I can see that might work. But nobody, not even a man so innured to hostile opposition as he is, is brave enough to try that on, in a country which I think has the highest rates of gambling in the world. Those making the money from gambling addiction wield much weight.
Meanwhile, Gillard has a deadline, having agreed to Wilke's demands in order to set up government. She is truly between a rock and a hard place.… (more)
He has subsequently become a federal MP, one of the Independents whom Gillard must charm to stay in power. It isn't working all that well. I'm most uneasy about his present crusade which threatens to bring down the government one way or another. The principle is admirable: to save gambling addicts from themselves through an assault on poker machines. If he were willing to go all the way: ban them completely, I can see that might work. But nobody, not even a man so innured to hostile opposition as he is, is brave enough to try that on, in a country which I think has the highest rates of gambling in the world. Those making the money from gambling addiction wield much weight.
Meanwhile, Gillard has a deadline, having agreed to Wilke's demands in order to set up government. She is truly between a rock and a hard place.… (more)
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He has subsequently become a federal MP, one of the Independents whom Gillard must charm to stay in power. It isn't working all that well. I'm most uneasy about his present crusade which threatens to bring down the government one way or another. The principle is admirable: to save gambling addicts from themselves through an assault on poker machines. If he were willing to go all the way: ban them completely, I can see that might work. But nobody, not even a man so innured to hostile opposition as he is, is brave enough to try that on, in a country which I think has the highest rates of gambling in the world. Those making the money from gambling addiction wield much weight.
Meanwhile, Gillard has a deadline, having agreed to Wilke's demands in order to set up government. She is truly between a rock and a hard place.… (more)