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Lagan, Bernard: Loner: Inside a Labor Tragedy - Mark Latham
Book Number: 49452
Allen & Unwin Academic January 2005 8vo softcover 246pp very good. Uncovers the bitter struggle and brutal realities of Labor's inner crisis and the legacy of the man who was to be his party's saviour.
Keywords: Loner Inside a Labor Tragedy Lagan Bernard
Price: $12.00 |
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Beresford, Quentin: Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke
Book Number: 51469
Allen & Unwin Academic August 1, 2008 8vo softcover 294pp very good. Photo's. Index. Once touted as a potential prime minister, former Western Australian premier Brian Burke has had a rollercoaster career. This is the first major biography of this charismatic and influential politician who even out of power and disgraced, pulled political strings in WA and beyond. The most popular premier in the nation in the 1980s, Brian Burke went to gaol twice after the scandals of WA Inc. His reputation was thought to be damaged beyond repair, but he became a successful lobbyist for some of the most powerful corporations in the country. As the Corruption and Crime Commission steadily closed in on him he was shown to be running a virtual shadow cabinet in his home state. Quentin Beresford tracks the rise, fall, resurrection and then collapse of the man in the Panama hat, examining what it is in Burke's personality, the nature of Labor party factionalism and the business community that brought him such power and influence across the country. In this absorbing account, Beresford succeeds in unraveling the strands of Brian Burke's life, exposing the forces which fashioned his now notorious public persona.
Keywords: garbage poorly written save your money Godfather The Life of Brian Burke Beresford Quentin
Price: $14.00 |
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Sexton, Michael: The Great Crash: The Short Life and Sudden Death of the Whitlam Government
Book Number: 51664
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd. April 28, 2006 8vo softcover 368pp very good. The dismissal of the Whitlam government on November 11, 1975, was arguably the most dramatic event in Australian political history. To mark its 30th anniversary, this account by a then-insider who is also an authority on Australian constitutional history revisits the major themes of 1975 and describes how various interest groups set out to derail the reform agenda of the first Labor government in 23 years. Written with clarity and extraordinary insight, this study of power is also a fascinating political story that offers lessons about what may lie ahead for future opposition movements in Australia.
Keywords: The Great Crash The Short Life and Sudden Death of the Whitlam Government Sexton Michael
Price: $20.00 |
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Nance, Lindsay: Prime Ministers of Australia
Book Number: 51895
Bison Group 1989 4to hardcover 128pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Up to Bob Hawke.
Keywords: Prime ministers of Australia Nance Lindsay
Price: $12.00 |
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Freudenberg, Graham: A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir
Book Number: 52153
John Wiley & Sons, Australia 2005 8vo. hardcover. 307pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: australian politics political speech writer
Price: $16.50 |
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Hocking, Jenny: Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography
Book Number: 52390
Cambridge University Press 1997 8vo hardcover 359pp index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / very good d/w. Jenny Hocking's political biography of Australian barrister, politician and High Court judge Lionel Murphy forced a reinterpretation of Murphy's considerable legal, social and political legacy. Now available in paperback, this new version includes an epilogue in which Hocking reassesses Murphy's place in the recent political and legal landscape. She argues that a long and influential career should not be obscured by the traumatic years before his death or the media sensationalism since.
Keywords: Legislators Lionel Murphy A Political Biography Hocking Jenny
Price: $22.00 |
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Howard, John: Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography
Book Number: 53611
Harper Collins 2010 8vo. hardcover. 711pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Keywords: john howard australian prime minister liberal party biography
Price: $30.00 |
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Wilkie, Andrew: Axis of Deceit
Book Number: 53848
Black 2004 8vo softcover 200pp index. very good. How a former intelligence officer became a whistleblower on a collision course with his country's government. On 11 March 2003, Andrew Wilkie resigned from Australia's senior intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments, in protest over the looming Iraq war. He was the only serving Intelligence Officer from the Coalition of the Willing--the US, UK and Australia--to do so, and his dramatic action was reported throughout the world. In Axis of Deceit, Wilkie offers timely insights into the world of international intelligence and details of his life as a spook, in the lead-up to a controversial and divisive war. Wilkie's pre-war statements have proven remarkably accurate: he was convinced Iraq did not pose a serious enough security threat to justify a war. In particular, he assessed nn* Iraq's military to be weak nn* Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction program to be disjointed and contained nn* no evidence of Iraq's active co-operation with al Quaida Wilkie assesses how the case for war was made in Washington, London and Canberra and explains how the three governments routinely skewed, spun and fabricated the relevant intelligence.
Keywords: stephen colbert wingnut welfare truthiness i can has job mom propaganda bird vomit editor promised cake colbert horrible propagandist Axis of Deceit Wilkie Andrew
Price: $15.00 |
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