The Boy from Boree Creek – The Tim Fischer Story – Peter Rees Used hardback: .2001 edition in good condition – no dust jacket This is the story of Tim Fischer’s journey from a country town in far southwest NSW to the centre of political power. It tells of an individual quietly determined to push past barriers and who succeeded where very few expected him to; of someone prepared to be different and to make that difference part of a distinctive personal style. Here too is the very personal story of a man who came to acknowledge the conflict between the demands of a high-profile public life and the needs of a family life and made the toughest political decision of his career – to step down as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. In doing justice to a remarkable and often surprising public life The Boy from Boree Creek not only tells the story of the making of that rare thing a much respected indeed much loved politician it also provides a revealing look a additional info…..
The Costello Memoirs – Peter Costello with Peter Coleman USED Hardback Book : .2008 edition in good condition The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government. In a political career spanning eighteen years Peter Costello Australia’s longest serving Treasurer steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges paying off Government debt introducing the GST and fighting five elections. What were the backroom deals that made the GST possible? How did Costello transform the Australian economy from Asia’s ‘white trash’ into the economic powerhouse able to withstand the financial meltdown of the late 1990s? What did Costello m click to go
Beazley – A Biography by Peter FitzSimons Used Hardback: .1998 edition Hardback book is in very good condition but is missing the title page n this groundbreaking biographical study Peter FitzSimons exposes the character behind this enigmatic politician – his ambitions his back-room manoeuvring and previously uncharted realms of his political and private life. Learning the rules of the game at the kitchen table politics for Beazley was a family business. Handing out ‘how to vote’ cards for his father at polling booths helping migrants at the Fremantle docks when his father was a Labor MP and watching Labor Party meetings from outside the town hall window Kim Beazley knew the gritty reality of politics before he became an elected politician in his own right. This is a revealing – and often surprising – portrait of the man who has had a quiet but profound effect on Australian politics. More than this FitzSimons reveals hitherto unknown accounts of the Hawke-Keating battle the move to privatis click the link
The Spy Catcher Trial – Malcolm Turnbull Used 1988 edition ex-library book hardback in good condition (however part of the title page is cut) Get other Books about Malcolm Turnbull click here Spycatcher details the author’s work seeking to discover a Soviet mole in MI5 and that the said mole was Roger Hollis — a former MI5 Director General; it also describes people who might have or might not have been the mole; and renders a history of MI5 by chronicling its principal officers from the 1930s to his time in service. Moreover Spycatcher tells of the MI6 plot to assassinate President Nasser during the Suez Crisis; of joint MI5-CIA plotting against left-wing British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (secretly accused of being a KGB agent by the Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn); and of MI5’s eavesdropping on high-level Commonwealth conferences. Wright examines the techniques of intelligence services exposes their ethics (speculative until that time) notably their 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not get caught and explains many MI5 electronic technologies (some of which he developed) for instance allowing clever spying into rooms and identifying the frequency that a more data
The Latham Diaries by Mark Latham Good condition hardback: .2005 edition Mark Latham resigned from parliament in January 2005 after only fourteen months as leader of the Opposition amid bitter post- election recrimination and how own ill health. This provides a unique view into the life of a man the Party and the nation at a crucial time in Australian history. About Mark Latham Mark William Latham (born 28 February 1961) a former Australian politician was leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. Latham captured national attention and initially high levels of public approval with his policies and unconventional approach but also attracted controversy surrounding his past. In the October 2004 federal election Mark Latham was defeated by Prime Minister John Howard. Deteriorating relations with his party and ill health saw him resign as Leader on 18 January 2005. Mark Latham was born in Ashcroft a suburb of south-western Sydney in New South Wales. He was educated at the selective Hurlstone Agricultural High School where he was dux and at the University o much more info
Robert J Hawke – A Biography by Blanche d’Alpuget – USED used paperback: .1984 edition – in good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Leadership largely is the essence of political life. Bob Hawke has been a leader in every arena he entered — academia student affairs the trade union movement and federal politics. He won four Federal Elections in a row a feat achieved by no other Labor Prime Minister. This is his own account of his remarkable life. A man of destiny pragmatist and visionary with plans for national reconciliation and for creating a new role for Australia in world affairs Hawke challenged much of the conventional wisdom of public life and brought an extraordinary sense of purpose to his government. His leadership coincided with the eighties; he and his Treasurer and later arch rival Paul Keating embraced the expansive mood of the time and set out to make Australia internat more details…..
Robert J Hawke – A Biography by Blanche d’Alpuget – USED used paperback: .1984 edition – in good condition Get the new Bob Hawke Prime Minister Book by Blanche d’Alpuget click here Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Leadership largely is the essence of political life. Bob Hawke has been a leader in every arena he entered — academia student affairs the trade union movement and federal politics. He won four Federal Elections in a row a feat achieved by no other Labor Prime Minister. This is his own account of his remarkable life. A man of destiny pragmatist and visionary with plans for national reconciliation and for creating a new role for Australia in world affairs Hawke challenged much of the conventional wisdom of public life and brought an extraordinary sense of purpose to his government. His leadership coincided with the eighties; he and his Treasurer and later arch rival Paul Keating embraced the expansive mood of the time click on
The End of Certainty – Paul Kelly – The Story of the 1980s Used paperback: .1992 edition Paperback book good condition. The End of Certainty is a classic study of power personality and national destiny. From boom to recession Hawke to Keating and Labor’s victory for the ‘true believers’ in 1993 Paul Kelly has written the ultimate inside story of how the 1980s changed Australia and its political parties forever. His detailed scrutiny of the inner working of the Hawke-Keating partnership and its slow disintegration his unravelling of the crippling rivalries for the Liberal Party leadership and his burrowing into cabinet room struggles over the deregulation of Australia’s financial system reveal the brutal realities of Australian politics and how it is play more details…..
Keating – A Biography by Edna Carew – USED Used : .1988 edition a rare hardback copy – book is in good condition slight tear to the dust jacket The biography of Paul Keating written in 1988 while he was still treasurer About the subject Paul Keating Paul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer in the Hawke government from 1983. As Prime Minister he is noted for his many legislative achievements and his victory in the 1993 federal election which many had considered "unwinnable" for Labor. In his second term however his "big picture" policies failed to impress an electorate that was increasingly concerned about economic issues. Keating was defeated at the 1996 federal election by the conservative Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties led by John Howard. Keating was a backbencher for most of the tenure of the Whitlam Labor government (December 1972 – Novem more data
Hazel’s Journey – Sue Pieters-Hawke – USED A Personal Experience of Alzheimer’s co written by Hazel Flynn used paperback: .2004 edition – good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here In November 2003 she revealed that she was facing her greatest challenge – Alzheimer’s disease. Her courage and determination in the face of this cruel turn of fate touched millions. Now comes the full inside story of Hazel’s journey with Alzheimer’s told by her daughter Sue. This is an interestng and personal story of an intelligent independent woman struggling with the disease that is affecting an ever increasing number of Australians. From early denial to the awful anger that came after diagnosis and the acceptance that has developed since Hazel’s Journey tells Hazel’s sto information
Julia Gillard feature in the Australian Womens Weekly August 2010 Used in good condition magazine Australia’s first female Prime Minister was on the cover of the August edition of Australia’s most influential women’s magazine The Australian Women’s Weekly. In a 13-page spread Ms Julia Gillard speaks on her long-term relationship with Tim Mathieson and her choice not to have children. About Julia Gillard Julia Eileen Gillard is the 27th Prime Minister of Australia .Gillard was elected at the 1998 federal election to the House of Representatives seat of Lalor Victoria for the Australian Labor Party. Following the 2001 federal election Gillard was elected to the shadow cabinet with the portfolios of Population and Immigration. The Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs and the Health portfolios were added in 2003. In December 2006 Kevin Rudd was elected Labor leader and Leader of the Opposition with Gillard as deputy leader. Gillard became the Deputy Prime Minister upon L click to go
Hawke an Emotional Life – Stan Anson- Bob Hawke Prime Minister – USED used paperback: .1992 edition – good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here `As a child Hawke was neither profusely indulged nor cruelly neglected. Consequently his narcissism is less assertive and impregnable than say Gough Whitlam’s less depressive and defensive than say Winston Churchill’s. The future Prime Minister was certainly a spoiled child in the everyday sense yet it appears that some critical intangible things were unconsciously withheld from him …’ Bob the Silver Bodgie the Right Honourable the Prime Minister R. J. Hawke. A man for all seasons or a hero without a face of his own? Throughout his thirty years on the public stage Bob Hawke has inhabited many public and private personas. Hawke: an emotional life examines the myths that have grown up around our Prime Minister and explores the roots of his personal and political style. Hawke’s early childhood the meaning of his autobiographical le details
Fighting for the Republic – Malcolm Turnbull Used softback: .Rare 1999 edition good condition – - Colour Photos Get other Books about Malcolm Turnbull click here Malcolm Turnbull gives us the ultimate insiders account of the republican debate and the Constitutional Convention. About the Author Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) Australian politician was the Federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources until November 2007. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Wentworth in Sydney’s eastern suburbs since October 2004. Before entering parliamentary politics he practiced as a barrister was a merchant banker and was leader of the Australian Republican Movement. In light of the Liberal Party’s defeat at the Federal elections and former Treasurer Peter Costello declining the role of Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull announced his intention to run for Leader of the Liberal Party but lost 42 votes to 45 to former Defence Minister Brendan Nelson and expressed his full support for Dr Nelson on 29 November 2007.Turnbull will instead be shadow treasurer. Early life Turnbull’s mother was writer a much more info
The Hawke-Keating Hijack – Dean Jaensch – Bob Hawke Prime Minister – USED used paperback: .1989 edition – good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Six years after Bob Hawke’s victory what is the ALP ? Since 1983 almost every component of the ethos structure and practice of the Labor Party has been questioned changed ignored or abandoned. The changes include new policies new sources of support a transformation of doctrine and significant alterations to the way the party decides on policy. Journalists the Opposition and rank-and-file party members have had much to say about the fate of Australia’s oldest party but few c more…..
Keating – The Inside Story – John Edwards – The Man – The Myth – The Record Used : .1996 edition paperback book is in good condition The definative biography of Paul Keating written by John Edwards was Paul Keatings Economics Advisor from 1991 to 1994 Get other Books about Paul Keating click here About the subject Paul Keating Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer in the Hawke government from 1983. As Prime Minister he is noted for his many legislative achievements and his victory in the 1993 federal election which many had considered "unwinnable" for Labor. In his second term however his "big picture" policies failed to impress an electorate that was increasingly concerned about economic issues. Keating was defeated at the 1996 federal election by the conservative Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties led by John Howard. Keating was a backbencher for most of the tenure of the Whitlam Labor government (December 1972 – November 1975) and briefly became Minister for Northern Australia in October 1975 one of th here
Thoughtlines by Bob Carr – Used Good condition paperback: .2002 edition The essayist-politician is a rarity in modern times though Francois Mitterand Roy Jenkins Roy Hattersley Conor Cruise O’Brien and Vaclav Havel come to mind. Few however have run a government while pondering as deeply and writing as lucidly on life literature nature art and fame as does Bob Carr in this collection of his published and unpublished work. The pieces in ‘Thoughtlines’ show the variety and range of his thought. Marcus Aurelius Margaret Thatcher Bill Clinton the beach the bush the Olympic Games the meaning of history the failure of socialism heroine migration Australian identity are evoked in a way that only a head of government in the thick of the action could do it in sentences and paragraphs that sometimes reach the eloquence of a Babington Macauley a Deakin a Gore Vidal. In all that he writes of – Australian identity Aboriginal reconcilliation the pressure of the past on a society – he s more data
The Hawke Government: A Critical Retrospective – USED Edited by Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston used paperback: .2003 edition – in good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Puts on the record for the first time the candid views of cabinet ministers political insiders and commentators who provide a unique insight into the nature of leadership and the struggles of government. Contributors include: Kim Beazley Neil Blewett John Button Anne Davies David Day Pat Dodson Bob Hogg Brian Howe Barry Jones Bill Kelty Geoff Kitney Susan Ryan Phillip Toyne and Ralph Willis About Bob Hawke Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC (born 9 December 1929) was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions he entered politics at the 1980 elections and became Prime Minister within three years. He became by far the longest-serving and most electorally successful Labor Prime Minister achieving the rare feat of winning four consec information
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart – Don Watson – A Potrait of Paul Keating PM Used hardback: .2002 edition Hard Back book is in excellent condition close to new condition Don Watson’s brilliant award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating Since its publication in March 2002 RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART has sold over 50 000 copies and won a string of prestiguous awards including The Age Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book The Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the National Biography Award. Political commentator – and himself a Keating biographer – Michael Gordon calls the book ‘a masterpiece…simply the best inside account of life politics and combat inside the highest office of the land ever written.’ Don Watson was employed as Keating’s speechwriter in 1992 less than a month after Keating took the country’s top job. Though trained in history rather than economics and generally regarded as a ‘bleeding heart liberal’ Watson became a close advisor and friend to the Prime Minister. Based on notes Watson kept during the four turbulent and exhausting years he spent here
The Minimal Monarchy by Tony Abbott Signed paperback: .1995 edition in good condition this book aims to give people who have no feeling for Britain and no sentiment for the Queen a reason to support the Australian Constitution. About Tony Abbott Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election. He was Minister for Employment Services Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Health and Ageing in the Howard government at various times from 1998 to 2007 and Leader of the House from 2001 to 2007. After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election he was Shadow Minister for Families Community Services and Indigenous Affairs until he resigned from Malcolm Turnbull’s shadow cabinet on 26 November 2009 in protest against Liberal Party support for an full details
Battlelines – Tony Abbott Near New paperback Get other Books about Tony Abbott click here What’s next for the conservative side of politics? Where are new battlelines to be drawn? Parliamentary pugilist and senior Liberal party figure Tony Abbott offers a lively and frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal party. Here he reveals insider moments and draws lessons from the dying days of the Howard Government and offers colourful insights about his contemporaries on both sides of politics. In Battlelines Abbott looks at the values and instincts that drive the Liberal Party and maps in detail key policy directions that the party might adopt. This is also the often-humorous story of his own political development. How a would-be priest fathered an unknown son; the truth about politicians’ lives; his “days from hell”; and his personal dispatches from the halls of power. Battlelines outlines a state of play for the Liberal Party cementing information
My Own Life – Hazel Hawke – USED used hardback: .1992 edition – good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Hazel Hawke’s story spans decades of enormous change in the way Australian families live – and live together. As the prime minister’s wife she lent her support to endeavours that reflected her own concerns and experience including her great love music. She enjoyed herself enormously – and swept others along with her enthusiasm for ideas and talk. My Own Life is an absorbing autobiography and a graphic slice of the social history of sixty years of change in Australia…. About Hazel Hawke Hazel Hawke AO is the former wife of Bob Hawke Prime Minister of Australia 1983–91. They divorced after he left the prime ministership. She has worked in social policy areas was an excellent amateur pianist and a patron of the arts. More recently she has appeared in public with her family after her diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease in order to raise awareness of the disease and surrounding issues. She is now in high-level nursing care. Hazel Masterson was born in Perth here
The Victory – Pamela Williams Used softback: .1997 edition good condition -clean book – tight binding – no other marks tears – loose or missing pages The Inside Story on the Takeover of Australia John Howard won a sweeping election victory against Paul Keating’s Labor Government and became Australia’s 25th Prime Minister in 1996. This is the inside story of that Election Victory The Victory by Pamela Williams Allen Unwin Sydney 1997 370pp $24.95 ISBN 1-86448-405-5 Review by Jason Falinski from the Centre of Independent Studies This is the first book in Australian politics that attempts to give readers an inside look at a Liberal Party federal campaign. There have been others that dissected federal campaigns from afar and there have been inside accounts of Labor Party campaigns but never an inside account of a Liberal Party campaign. This alone makes Pamela Williams’s book worth reading but fails to live up to expectations. When Williams addressed the Sydney Institute last year she was asked why the Liberals had changed their minds and let her cover the story from the inside. She said she did not know. This sums up the narrative of the book – startling fa additional info…..
The Reluctant Republic – Malcolm Turnbull Used softback: .1993 edition very good condition Malcolm Turnbull writing in support of the Republic 1993 Get other Books about Malcolm Turnbull click here About the Author Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) Australian politician was the Federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources until November 2007. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Wentworth in Sydney’s eastern suburbs since October 2004. Before entering parliamentary politics he practiced as a barrister was a merchant banker and was leader of the Australian Republican Movement. In light of the Liberal Pa more advice
The Costello Memoirs – Peter Costello with Peter Coleman Brand New Paperback Book : .2009 edition – In Stock revised edition 2009 The Hardback edition of The Costello Memoirs is here – click here The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government. In a political career spanning eighteen years Peter Costello Australia’s longest serving Treasurer steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges paying off Government debt introducing the GST and fighting five elections. What were the backroom deals that made the GST possible? How did Costello transform the Australian economy from Asia’s ‘white trash’ into the economic powerhouse able to withstand the financial meltdown of the late 1990s? What did lots more
A Cabinet Diary – Neal Blewett – USED Used hardback: .1995 edition in good condition Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1990s click here A Cabinet Diary is an absorbing account of the endeavours of a government under extreme pressure. Christmas 1991 found Australia’s Labor government newly led by Paul Keating at the nadir of its fortunes. In March 1993 it defied all predictions and triumphed in an ‘unwinnable’ election. This book the result of a daily diary kept by a senior cabinet minister tells the story of this ultimately successful struggle to survive. This is the first time a cabinet diary of this nature has been published in Australia. Unlike a memoir compiled in the tranquillity of retirement Neal Blewett’s diary is an immediate and intimate record of the workings of cabinet government at a moment in time. While the book is a justly proud testament to a victory against the odds there is no attempt to reinterpret events in order to vindicate a related info
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart – Don Watson – A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Used Softcover: .2002 edition Soft cover book is in good condition – clean book tight binding – - no other marks tears – no loose or missing pages 1st Edition Get other Books about Paul Keating click here Don Watson’s brilliant award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating now in paperback. Since its publication in March 2002 RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART has sold over 50 000 copies and won a string of prestiguous awards including The Age Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book The Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the National Biography Award. Political commentator – and himself a Keating biographer – Michael Gordon calls the book ‘a masterpiece…simply the best inside account of life politics and combat inside the highest office of the lots more
The Hawke Memoirs – Bob Hawke – USED used hardback: .1994 edition – good condition – good dust jacket Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Leadership largely is the essence of political life. Bob Hawke has been a leader in every arena he entered — academia student affairs the trade union movement and federal politics. He won four Federal Elections in a row a feat achieved by no other Labor Prime Minister. This is his own account of his remarkable life. A man of destiny pragmatist and visionary with plans for national reconciliation and for creating a new role for Australia in world affairs Hawke challenged much of the conventional wisdom of public life and brought an extraordinary sense of purpose to his government. His leadership coincided with the eighties; he and his Treasurer and later arch rival Paul Keating embraced the expansive mood of the time and set out to m link here
The Hawke Ascendancy – Paul Kelly – Bob Hawke Prime Minister – USED used paperback: .1984 edition – good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here "The Hawke Ascendancy is the story of how the Labor Party returned to power in 1983 after its crushing defeat in 1975. It is the inside story of three men – Bob Hawke Malcolm Fraser and Bill Hayden – and their unique power struggle. The account covers the full eight years which began with Fraser’s 1975 supremacy and closed with Hawke’s 1983 triumph and first year of office. "This definitive work deals with the personality clashes policy achievements and power struggles in both the Labor and Liberal p link here
The Hawke Years by Stephen Mills – USED used paperback: .1993 edition – in good condition Get Other Books on Bob Hawke Prime Minister at the time click here Get Other Books on Australian Politics in the 1980s click here Bob Hawke won four elections in a row; feat achieved by no other Labor Prime Minister. Pragmatist or visionary with plans for consensus and national reconciliation? Stephen Mills Hawke’s speechwriter for more than four years throws new light on Hawke’s character and style. He reveals that Hawke considered dumping Keating even before they were sworn into government in 1983 — and that he explored a secret bid to negotiate with Saddam Hussein before the outbreak of the Gulf War. The Hawke Years unravels the puzzle in tracing more data
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