Abstract
Australia’s eastern seaboard has some of the busiest sea lanes in the world, with hundreds of cargo ships, tankers and pleasure boats sailing through its waters at any one time. But in October 1998, when a 40-metre freighter took an unusual course towards Port Macquarie in northern New South Wales, the police were watching carefully.
Tell tale tit,
Your tongue will split.
And all the puppy dogs,
Will have a little bit.
—An old Sydney schoolyard rhyme reflecting traditional Australian working-class loyalty to one’s ‘mates’, contempt of police informers, and hostility towards authority1
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Notes
Nancy Viviani, The Indochinese in Australia 1915–1995: From Burnt Boats to Barbecues, Oxford University Press, Sydney, Auckland, New York, 1996, p. 130.
Jonathan Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987, p. 66.
Rodney Tiffen, Scandals, Media, Politics & Corruption in Contemporary Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999, pp. 38, 131.
John Pilger, A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 211.
Evan Whitton, The Hillbilly Dictator: Australia’s Police State, ABC Books, Sydney, 1989, p. 159.
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Lintner, B. (2002). Wizardry in the land of Oz. In: Blood Brothers. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06294-9_8
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