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Whistle - blowers Jean Lennane, Bill Dobson, John Mcnicol, Chris Howe, Bill Toomer, Keith Potter, Robert Curtis and Bruee Hamilton.What kind of people would meet furtively on a Saturday morning hundreds of Kilometers from home, charter a houseboat, and motor to a secluded cove where, under cover of darkness, they make plans to change the course of public administration in Australia?The Cold War may be over, James Bond may have hung up his Walther PPK, but espionage of a different sort is alive if unwell - the business of spying on the bureaucracy from within, and revealing its secrets. And the nine people who se sail on the good ship Luxury Sirius on Lake Macquarie the other weekend were well aware of the extreme prejudice that can result. March 12, 1992. (Photo by Ben Rushton/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).