To have a prominent political figure challenging the power and message of the Israel lobby is almost unheard of in most western nations – which is precisely what makes the just released diaries of former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr all the more remarkable.
As presses rolled Friday night with the Murdoch bid for redemption in the "sorry" ad, and with front-page stories telling of his face-to-face, head-hanging apology to the parents of a murdered girl whose cellphone voice mails were hacked, Mr. Cameron's aides released a diary of his meetings with executives and editors of News International.
During the trial, in which he was convicted, the government released his diaries.
Mining an enormous trove of the author's freshly released letters, diaries, unpublished manuscripts and more, two new books depict his life in thorough and unprecedented detail.
Melbourne University Press was keen to release the diary as a slim book.
He said releasing the diary would harm the working of Keenan's office, relationships with enforcement agencies and confidentiality of deliberations of government.
The justice minister, Michael Keenan, has refused to release his diary to prove he had a meeting with the Australian federal police when the government lost lower house votes in part due to his absence.
Just a staging post, it turned out – since they have just released another record, Diary, which they regard as their debut.
Andrew Chan reflected on his life in a video diary released earlier this year from prison, where he talked about "how precious life really is".
Vicky Pryce, who was jailed for accepting speeding points on behalf of her ex-husband, Chris Huhne, released a prison diary, Prisonomics, last October, also through Biteback.
