Publisher Allen & Unwin have gone to water and advised author, Clive Hamilton, that they have spiked his latest book, 'Silent Invasion', which would have told us about the growing Chinese influence on Canberra.

Allen & Unwin have published several of Clive's lefty works; but it appears that they don't want to upset China with this one. There is the politics of it of course, but the publisher gets nicely priced printing done in the Middle Kingdom as well

It highlights how much we need small business. Often big business declines to take the risk because it has too much to lose.

You may find of interest the section on "Vulnerabilities of Liberal democracies to information/influence warfare" on page 17 of Lin and Kerr's chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Cybersecurity (2018): http://fsi.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/cyber-enabled_influence_warfare-ssrn-v1.pdf

Dr Herb Lin is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University and will give a free talk on cyber-enabled information warfare, at the Australian National University in Canberra, 12:30 pm, 5 December 2017: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/cyber-enabled-information-warfare-and-the-end-of-the-enlightenment-tickets-40085401515

Dead right . Liberal democracy was subverted by propaganda from the British Empire and Pentagon. Opium wars in China proved that.