> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Australia’s Deep State Flexes Its Muscles Pt. 1 - URL: https://goodoil.news/australias-deep-state-flexes-its-muscles-pt-1/ - Published: 2020-02-24T03:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2020-02-24T09:12:55.000Z - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: AUS Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24 When conservatives in the US first began to talk about the “Deep State”, they were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and cranks. **Except that they were right.** The past five years and more have seen a slew of revelations which prove that an unelected and deeply embedded bureaucracy is working steadily to undermine America’s democratic institutions. The **Obama** administration not only oversaw the biggest – and illegal – domestic spying operation in the nation’s history, but also weaponised government agencies from the DOJ to the IRS in order to spy on and intimidate political opponents. The **Trump** administration has been steadily white-anted by a shadowy bureaucracy which openly states its determination to bring down a democratically-elected president. Australia has its own deep state and it’s making its presence known. > **Scott Morrison** is facing calls to scrap the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme after the government declined to release more than 1300 documents showing how bureaucrats came to target­ a conservative political conferen­ce and **Tony Abbott** under the new laws. > > The refusal has fuelled accusations that public servants at the Attorney-General’s Department are running a “covert political opera­tion \[…\] to silence Australians because of their political beliefs” instead of properly enforcing the new foreign influence regime. Not only does this unelected bureaucracy try to ban conservative commentators like **Milo** from our shores, but they’re also trying to undermine domestic conservative voices – all the way up to former prime ministers. **Andrew Cooper** of LibertyWorks has been threatened with jail time and former prime minister Tony Abbott smeared as a “foreign agent”. > Mr Cooper’s small not-for-profit organisation LibertyWorks co-hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference in August along with the American Conserv­ative Union. The event featured a range of prominent speakers including Brexit Party leader **Nigel Farage**. > > Mr Cooper received an ­October 21 letter from the ­Attorney-General’s Department asking him to provide all documents “detailing any understanding or arrangement between LibertyWorks and the ACU”\[…\]The letter to Mr Cooper, sent by **Sarah Chidgey**, the deputy secretar­y of the department’s integ­rity and international group, demanded invitations to the event and correspondence with speak­ers, as well as the transcripts and recordings of the ­addresses. > > It noted that failure to comply with the order within 14 days carried­ a maximum penalty of six months’ jail. > > As revealed by The Australian, Mr Abbott — another speaker at the conference — was also issued a letter from the department asking him to register as an agent of foreign influence one day before his address. > > The letter was rejected by Mr Abbott who labelled it ­“absurd”. > > [theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/conservatives-under-fire-document-release-refused/](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/conservatives-under-fire-document-release-refused/news-story/d02f1dee93350ca5786f54d56660b613?ref=goodoil.news) This comes at a time, remember, that the media are screaming and clutching their pearls because, in a perfectly routine and legal move, the Federal Police obtained warrants and searched a journalist’s house for possibly illegally-leaked, classified material. Yet these hypocrites are cheering from the sidelines when unelected bureaucrats are intimidating conservatives. The *Age* derides CPAC as “hard right” and “racist” and gives a free platform to left-wing politicians to disgracefully link CPAC guests to mass shootings. The taxpayer-funded ABC does the same. Coming from a Labor party which takes literal shopping bags full of money from Chinese government agents, the hypocrisy is simply stunning. There is no doubt that this is intimidation: threats of jail time, demands for private correspondence and recordings. This is Stasi-stuff, where the very process is the punishment. What’s worse is that it is happening on the watch of a conservative government. > It was clear from reporting in The Australian at that time that Attorney-General **Christian Porter­** was unaware of the actions of bureaucrats in his department. He said he had made it “clear to my department that I expect it to demonstrate a focus on the most serious instances of non-­compliance”. > > He then added what might be seen as an understatement: “I’m not persuaded this focus has been perfectly demonstrated to date.” > > [theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/how-labors-top-lawyer-mark-dreyfus-steered-bureaucrats-against-expm-tony-abbott/](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/how-labors-top-lawyer-mark-dreyfus-steered-bureaucrats-against-expm-tony-abbott/news-story/fdc9cea0e0db084adaeabd2a29119830?ref=goodoil.news) But that’s the way the Deep State works: no matter who’s in power, the swamp monsters stay, lurking under their logs. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the_bfd_govtspying.jpg) Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re NOT after you. The BFD. *If you enjoyed this BFD article please consider sharing it with your friends.*