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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Drawing from immense historical resources, Blaxland and Birgin take us inside the secretive walls of Australia’s signals intelligence services. Chronicling the history of the service and the unique challenges facing the intelligence community in the digital age, this is a fascinating account of the realities of espionage.
Note: John Blaxland is appearing via Zoom
#Artist
Clare Birgin
Clare Birgin’s career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other agencies has spanned more than thirty years, focusing on eastern Europe, intelligence and security matters, multilateral trade negotiations and the Middle East. Her first posting was to Warsaw. She also served in Moscow, Geneva, and as Liaison Officer for the Office of National Assessments in Washington. She was Australia’s Ambassador in Hungary, then in Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania. She co-authored Revealing Secrets, an Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber with Professor John Blaxland.
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