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Rudd, Gillard and Beyond: Penguin Special

Author : Troy Bramston
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743485166
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Rudd, Gillard and Beyond: Penguin Special written by Troy Bramston and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial legacy of the Rudd-Gillard governments, along with Labor's 2013 election defeat, looms large over the party. Labor risks years in the political wilderness unless it can reinvent itself. What did it get right, where did it go wrong, and how can it regain the trust of voters? Troy Bramston uses new in-depth interviews with Kevin Rudd and Bill Shorten, the advice of Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and insights from Julia Gillard's inner circle to look at Labor in power and its pathway back to government. With previously unpublished documents and revealing observations, Rudd, Gillard and Beyond is the first book to provide a post-mortem and a roadmap for vital reform. 'Troy Bramston has become the chief chronicler of the Australian Labor Party, an authority on its bloody past and oracle of its uncertain future. Rudd, Gillard and Beyond is Bramston's sixth book on this grand old party and it cements his place as one of our most insightful political historians.' Richard Ferguson, The Australian 'A short but powerful read highlighting the faults of the previous Labor Federal Government and the wider problems that currently plague the party.' Matt Pengilley, Good Reads 'This is a very good book, a very good book, and Troy Bramston has some very good gets in it.' Paul Kelly, Sky News 'Rudd, Gillard and Beyond is compulsory reading for anyone who has an interest in Australian politics.' Graham Richardson, Sky News

Rudd, Gillard and Beyond

Author : Troy Bramston
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143571797
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Rudd, Gillard and Beyond written by Troy Bramston and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial legacy of the Rudd-Gillard governments, along with Labor's 2013 election defeat, looms large over the party. Labor risks years in the political wilderness unless it can reinvent itself. What did it get right, where did it go worng, and how can it regain the trust of voters? Troy Bramston uses new in-depth interviews with Kevin Rudd and Bill Shorten, the advice of Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and insights from Julia Gillard's inner circle to look at Labor in power and its pathway back to government. With previously unpublished documents and revealing observations, Rudd, Gillard and Beyond is the first book to provide a post-mortem and a roadmap for vital reform. 'Troy Bramston has become the chief chronicler of the Australian Labor Party, an authority on its bloody past and oracle of its uncertain future. Rudd, Gillard and Beyond is Bramston's sixth book on this grand old party and it cements his place as one of our most insightful political historians.' Richard Ferguson, The Australian 'A short but powerful read highlighting the faults of the previous Labor Federal Government and the wider problems that currently plague the party.' Matt Pengilley, Good Reads 'This is a very good book, a very good book, and Troy Bramston has some very good gets in it.' Paul Kelly, Sky News 'Rudd, Gillard and Beyond is compulsory reading for anyone who has an interest in Australian politics.' Graham Richardson, Sky News

Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special

Author : Liam Pieper
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 176014116X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special written by Liam Pieper and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Pieper's made some poor life choices, but he's (usually) meant well. He's tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he's ended up with life-threatening infestations, a punch in the face at a Leonard Cohen concert and brief detention by counter-terrorism experts. Taking us from Nimbin to US border security to the star-studded Chateau Marmont in LA, these four essays are compelling, insightful and very funny. Mistakes Were Made is about the gap between our ideals in life – of love, compassion, ambition – and how things actually play out. 'His writing is electric: charged with meaning and energised by surprising comedic turns.' Weekend Australian 'Charming and amusing.' Sunday Age 'The ability to laugh at yourself is arguably the most valuable quality you can cultivate as a writer, and Liam Pieper has it in spades . . . he does hilarious self-deprecation with considerable panache.' Sydney Morning Herald

Is There No Place for Me?: Making Sense of Madness: Penguin Special

Author : Kate Richards
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743485271
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Is There No Place for Me?: Making Sense of Madness: Penguin Special written by Kate Richards and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost half the Australian population will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime yet it is still difficult to find the right treatment and stay well. Kate Richards is well positioned to ask the hard questions about our mental health system. She experienced episodes of depression and psychosis well into her adult life and is a trained doctor. Kate argues for empowering patients and their families to be active members of treatment teams. She challenges the common belief that patients are responsible – even somehow to blame – for the existence of their illnesses and makes a plea for mental health professionals to reach out across the patient–therapist divide and find a human connection. When mental health patients are heard, respected and understood, sustained healing can begin. Kate's experiences are detailed in the critically acclaimed Madness: A Memoir, winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. She is now a full-time writer, working part-time in medical research, and has learnt how to live a happy and productive life with a chronic mental illness. 'With swift, bold brushstrokes she plunges us into [these] fractured worlds . . . These powerful vignettes show those suffering mental illness as ordinary people rather than as statistics or ''patients''.' The Saturday Age

Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

Author : Robert Drewe
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742531458
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins written by Robert Drewe and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

Take Your Best Shot: Penguin Special

Author : Jacqueline Kent
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743482582
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Take Your Best Shot: Penguin Special written by Jacqueline Kent and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Australian prime minister has had to face such a difficult and challenging political environment as did Julia Gillard. Her impressive legislative record was overshadowed by pitched battles with jealous rivals and a remarkably hostile media, as well as her own struggles to communicate effectively with the public. Following her successful The Making of Julia Gillard, award-winning biographer Jacqueline Kent analyses our first woman prime minister's tumultuous term in office, drawing on a range of views and including an exclusive new interview with Gillard herself. Take Your Best Shot is an insightful, revelatory and immensely readable account of Julia Gillard's leadership – and its abrupt ending.

My Story

Author : Julia Gillard
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0857983997
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book My Story written by Julia Gillard and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia's 27th prime minister, and our first female leader. Australia was alive to the historic possibilities. Here was a new approach for a new time. It was to last three extraordinary years. This is Julia Gillard's chronicle of that turbulent time, a strikingly candid self-portrait of a political leader seeking to realise her ideals. It is her story of what it was like - in the face of government in-fighting and often hostile media - to manage a hung parliament, build a diverse and robust economy, create an equitable and world-class education system, ensure a dignified future for Australians with disabilities, all while attending to our international obligations and building strategic alliances for our future. This is a politician driven by a sense of purpose - from campus days with the Australian Union of Students, to a career in the law, to her often gritty, occasionally glittering rise up the ranks of the Australian Labor Party. Refreshingly honest, peppered with a wry humour and personal insights, Julia Gillard does not shy away from her mistakes, admitting freely to errors, misjudgements, and policy failures as well as detailing her political successes. In the immediate aftermath of the leadership, here is her account, of what was hidden behind the resilience and dignified courage Gillard showed as prime minister, her view of the vicious hate campaigns directed against her, and a reflection on what it means - and what it takes - to be a woman leader in contemporary politics. With new material and fresh insights, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia's first female prime minister. 'An honest and compelling account of what life is like at the highest political levels- Gillard is an engaging and incisive guide.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Julia Gillard's memoir provides real, detailed, forensic, and clinical insight into the government from her central, completely unique, vantage point.' Katharine Murphy, The Guardian 'Provides a cogent defence of the reasons for the challenge to Rudd, the difficulties her government faced, both internal and external, and an insight into Gillard herself.' The Conversation

The Sociological Quest

Author : Haydn Aarons
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000686736
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Sociological Quest written by Haydn Aarons and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting Sociology can be daunting. This user-friendly introduction takes the reader on a quest towards a sociological understanding of the world we live in. Using contemporary examples, The Sociological Quest asks what is distinctive about the way Sociologists view society. Haydn Aarons and Evan Willis show that they are concerned with the relationships between the individual and society, and that a sociological analysis involves an approach which is historical, cultural, structural, and critical. This sixth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes new material on identities, social change, social movements, populism, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, digital interaction, and social media. Also included in the sixth edition is an expanded chapter on empirical research in Sociology and the research process, as well as a new chapter on careers in Sociology.

A Wary Embrace: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

Author : Bobo Lo
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760143723
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book A Wary Embrace: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special written by Bobo Lo and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics? In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances are deceptive. Beijing and Moscow have shown no capacity to cooperate on grand strategy or establish new international norms. This is no authoritarian alliance, but a partnership of strategic convenience – pragmatic, calculating and constrained.

The Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

Author : Peter Hartcher
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760140635
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special written by Peter Hartcher and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the water's edge. Measured against its potential today and its needs tomorrow, Australia is seriously underperforming. It is wasting valuable opportunities to strengthen its position and help shape the world. Drawing on exclusive interviews with prime ministers, foreign ministers and other policy-makers, Gold Walkley award–winning journalist peter Hartcher argues Australia needs to shake off its 'provincial reflex' and become a mature player in global affairs. 'One of the most formidable intellects in journalism.' The Saturday Paper

The Ellis Laws

Author : Bob Ellis
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743485824
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Ellis Laws written by Bob Ellis and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these witty, outrageous ten laws, the well-beloved gadfly, sage and wordsmith Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, competence and charisma, youth and old age. He explains why bicycles encourage premarital sex, moving house too many times drives humans mad, 'the rising price of a roof ' is the root of all economic evil, and, most ominously, 'power flows to the most boring man in the room'. He alleges, pretty persuasively, that all CEOs – except, perhaps, George Lucas – should be sacked, fined or imprisoned. This is a book to cherish, re-read and pass on to generations less informed of how humans were at the turn of the millennium, and how much they got wrong.

Bob Hawke

Author : Troy Bramston
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760143928
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Bob Hawke written by Troy Bramston and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him – the last that he gave – as well as unfiltered access to his extensive trove of personal papers. It features new interviews with more than 100 people who knew and worked with Hawke, including his family and friends; political and union colleagues, and rivals; advisers and public servants; and journalists; along with international contemporaries of Hawke such as George H.W. Bush, John Major, Brian Mulroney, James Baker and George Shultz. It also brings together an extraordinary array of never-before-seen archival documents: family diaries, notes, letters and scrapbooks; school and university reports; cabinet, departmental and vice-regal papers; party strategy documents, polling and caucus minutes; and secret correspondence and meeting records between Hawke and other Cold War leaders. Troy Bramston, an award-winning and best-selling author, tells the remarkable story of Hawke’s upbringing and education, the people and events that shaped him, his rise through the union movement, his complex personality and personal life marked by womanising and the demon drink, his nine-year government from 1983 to 1991, plus his post-prime ministerial life and legacy. This book is about the real Hawke, chronicling the stunning triumphs and shocking failures, a life riddled with huge flaws and great virtues marked by redemption and reinvention, which changed Australia and shaped the world. Revelatory and compelling, it will shock and surprise those who think they know the story of Australia’s most popular prime minister.

From Despair to Hope

Author : James Arvanitakis
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760143278
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book From Despair to Hope written by James Arvanitakis and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few days before the terrorist attacks in Paris, a car bomb exploded in Beirut killing dozens. Though this may happen on the other side of the world, deep divisions occur that are exploited here for political expediency. Strangers are no longer people reading quietly on the bus, but potential threats. How can we respond? James Arvanitakis argues that one way forward is through acts of kindness and embracing hope. Hope here is not passive, but an active hope that emerges through our actions.

Does Cooking Matter?

Author : Rebecca Huntley
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743483333
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Does Cooking Matter? written by Rebecca Huntley and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooking is, for many Australians, a chore. And it's now easier than ever to order takeaway, eat out at an affordable restaurant or buy pre-prepared food. In such an environment, what incentives are there for us to cook meals that get people around the table? Rebecca Huntley, determined to answer if and why cooking still matters to Australians, talks to MasterChef judges, men learning to cook later in life and children first being exposed to the wonders of fresh produce. Does Cooking Matter? is a thorough and engaging examination of our current food culture, and a call to arms to bring Australians back into the kitchen.

The Badlands

Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241966426
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Badlands written by Paul French and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Badlands by Paul French - a gripping criminal portrait of pre-communist Peking, from the interntional bestselling author of Midnight in Peking The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, misfits and the odd bohemian, it was a place of opium dens, divebars, brothels, flophouses and cabarets, and was infamous for its ability to satisfy every human desire from the exotically entertaining to the criminally depraved. These vignettes of eight non-Chinese residents of the precinct White Russians, Americans and Europeans bring the Badlands vividly back to life, providing a short but potent account of a place and a way of life until now largely forgotten, but here rendered unforgettable. Praise for Midnight in Peking: 'An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last' David Peace, author of Red Riding and The Damned United 'Fascinating and irresistible. I couldn't put it down' John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 'Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery, but all the facts are true' Kirsty Lang, BBC Radio 4 (Book of the Week) 'Engrossing true crime whodunnit... A terrific read' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times Born in London, Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China; his books include a history of North Korea, a biography of Shanghai adman and adventurer Carl Crow, and a history of foreign correspondents in China.

Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

Author : Ben Bland
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760145211
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special written by Ben Bland and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a riverside shack to the presidential palace, Joko Widodo surged to the top of Indonesian politics on a wave of hope for change. However, six years into his presidency, the former furniture maker is struggling to deliver the reforms that Indonesia desperately needs. Despite promising to build Indonesia into an Asian powerhouse, Jokowi, as he is known, has faltered in the face of crises, from COVID-19 to an Islamist mass movement. Man of Contradictions, the first English-language biography of Jokowi, argues that the president embodies the fundamental contradictions of modern Indonesia. He is caught between democracy and authoritarianism, openness and protectionism, Islam and pluralism. Jokowi’s incredible story shows what is possible in Indonesia – and it also shows the limits.

Morrison’s Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

Author : Paul Kelly
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143778048
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Morrison’s Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special written by Paul Kelly and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges- an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by making highly contentious changes that will be felt for decades, not least the historic decision to build nuclear-powered submarines. Featuring interviews with Morrison and members of his cabinet, this book tells the story of the Prime Minister's foreign policy convictions and calculations, and what drove his attitudes towards China, America and the Indo-Pacific.