The Best Australian Political Writing 2008
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Author | : Maxine McKew |
Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0522854214 |
"Tony Jones selects and introduces the best writing about the names and events that have shaped the past year in politics. From Howard's end to the war in Iraq; the Northern Territory intervention to the release of David Hicks, this diverse and compelling collection includes writing by Australia's leading commentators and opinion-makers. The best Australian political writing 2008 brings together the most controversial, illuminating and provocative writing about the names and events from the past year."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Judith Brett |
Publisher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1922459224 |
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia’s brightest and most astute political commentator.
Author | : Tony Abbott |
Publisher | : Liberal Party of Australia |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0646590332 |
Author | : Owen E. Hughes |
Publisher | : Paul & Company Pub Consortium |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780732927882 |
A comprehensive, theoretically informed introduction to Australian politics, combining a detailed coverage of the main areas of Australian politics with interpretation of the controversial issues.
Author | : Judith Brett |
Publisher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1925626814 |
It’s compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stations, and election parties that spill over into Sunday morning. But how did this come to be: when and why was voting in Australia made compulsory? How has this affected our politics? And how else is the way we vote different from other democracies? Lively and inspiring, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage is a landmark account of the character of Australian democracy by the celebrated historian Judith Brett, the prize-winning biographer of Alfred Deakin.
Author | : Mungo MacCallum |
Publisher | : Black Inc. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781863955874 |
Author | : Laurie Oakes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780733623653 |
A collection of the best of Laurie Oakes political commentary. This media heavyweight is the man who breaks the big stories and has all the right connections.
Author | : Judith Brett |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1997-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1742696791 |
Politicians' lives are public lives. The decisions they make and do not make, and the way they behave, affect us all and shape our lives. To what extent do the inner lives of our leaders influence their performance? Should we know about the inner person? Indeed, how can we know? The eight essays in this collection explore these questions and present some disturbing answers by scrutinising the 'character' of leaders as varied as Keating, Menzies, Hawke, Whitlam, Hasluck, Fraser, Calwell and Soeharto. Political Lives is an intriguing venture into the shadowy world of motives and values - and the inner past that shaped these leaders.
Author | : Laura Tingle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781863956147 |
"Eloquent and insightful ... a brilliant analysis" - Canberra Times Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In this brilliant short book - an expanded version of her acclaimed Quarterly Essay -Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider. Now we are an angry nation, and the Age of Entitlement is coming to an end. What will a different politics look like? And, Tingle asks, even if a leader surfs the wave of anger all the way to power, what answer can be given to our great expectations? "It is wrong to see the anger of the last few years as a 'one-off, ' which might go away at the next election. The things we are angry about betray the changes that have been taking place over recent decades. Politicians no longer control interest rates, the exchange rate, or wages, prices or industries that were once protected or even owned by government. Voters are confused about what politicians can do for them in such a world." Laura Tingle, Great Expectations Laura Tingle is political editor of the Australian Financial Review. She won Walkley awards in 2005 and 2011, and in 2010 and 2013 was shortlisted for the John Button Prize for political writing. She appears regularly on Radio National's Late Night Live and ABC-TV's Insiders.
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Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0522860559 |
In The Best Australian Political Writing 2009, Crikey publisher Eric Beecher selects the most incisive and entertaining writing about the notable events and names of the past year. From the Prime Minister's historic apology speech and the global financial crisis to the election of the first black American President, it has been an era-defining twelve months. Leading political commentators chart these momentous times and look at the issues that have divided the country - climate change, leadership contests, the Bill Henson controversy and more.