Politics
Silencing Dissent
typingisnotactivisim interviews Clive Hamilton
The thing that surprised me, as we did the research and commissioned papers and looked for case studies, and so forth, was the fear that most people have about blowing the whistle, and the sort of pressure and intimidation that they’d been subject to. The unwillingness of otherwise strong, forthright, outspoken people to actually speak out on these issues because they were fearful – partly for their own jobs and reputations, but also for their organizations, their sense of loyalty to their organizations and that if they speak out about the pressures they’ve been under from the Federal Government then a lot of other people will suffer too.
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David Obendorf’s review of Silencing Dissent