For Peter Carey the Whitlam dismissal is more than a memory

By Susan Wyndham
Updated October 30 2014 - 10:09am, first published October 20 2014 - 7:43pm
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey.  Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey. Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey.  Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey. Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey.  Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey. Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey.  Photo: Steven Siewert
Conspiracy theorist? Author Peter Carey. Photo: Steven Siewert

In the 45 minutes we spend talking about his new novel Amnesia, Peter Carey reels off a long list of United States government conspiracies, cover-ups and interferences in other countries' internal affairs from the Philippines in the 1890s to the computer worm that destroyed an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010 and the car crash that killed American war correspondent Michael Hastings last year.

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