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| Subject: OZschwitz ASIO's secret surveillance films and photos captured many innocents Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:04 pm | |
| The plot to murder a federal minister at a Sydney television studio is one of the nation's great untold stories. It went like this. In 1974, the TV chat show Frost Over Australia invited Aboriginal activists to Channel Seven at Epping. On air, they fired furious taunts at another guest, Barrie Dexter, the secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. The program's urbane British host, David Frost, asked Dexter: ''Do you think you should be replaced in your job by an Aborigine?'' Dexter replied stolidly: ''I would like nothing better.''
This failed to impress the activists, who erupted with demands: ''Well, resign. Get out!''
Almost four decades later, a frail Dexter reviews footage of the show. ''There's a row of all the wild-heads, sat right behind me,'' he observes.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/asio-files-that-looks-suspicious-doesnt-it-20140103-309ic.html#ixzz2pOYzSsOL |
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