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The Wit of Whitlam

Author : James Carleton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522868096
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Wit of Whitlam written by James Carleton and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His wife Margaret was his 'best appointment', he called Malcolm Fraser 'Kerr's cur' after the Dismissal and when Sir Winton Turnbull called out in parliament 'I am a country member', Gough interjected 'I remember'. When it was suggested he was funny, Gough responded: 'Funny! Funny? Witty, yes. Epigrammatic perhaps, but not funny. You make me sound like a clown.' James Carleton, Radio National presenter and founder of the university club 'The Dewy-Eyed Whitlamites', presents a keepsake of Goughisms that vindicates the Great Man's self-assessment, 'I never said I was immortal, merely eternal.'

The Wit of Whitlam

Author : Deane Wells
Publisher : Collingwood, Australia : Outback
ISBN 13 : 9780868880419
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Wit of Whitlam written by Deane Wells and published by Collingwood, Australia : Outback. This book was released on 1976 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wit of Whitlam

Author : Deane Wells
Publisher : Collingwood, Australia : Outback
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit of Whitlam written by Deane Wells and published by Collingwood, Australia : Outback. This book was released on 1976 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truth of the Matter

Author : Gough Whitlam
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522852127
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Truth of the Matter written by Gough Whitlam and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict, as Whitlam's reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable, and increasingly bitter, conservative opposition. The focus of the Opposition's scheming was the Senate, where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a political crisis. Whitlam, famous for his 'crash through or crash' style, refused to compromise with his political enemies. After consulting secretly with the Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, and the Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, Kerr abruptly informed the PM that he had withdrawn his commission. Half an hour later, Kerr swore Fraser in as 'caretaker Prime Minister'. At an election a month later, the conservatives were returned to office. Controversy and recrimination followed. Many Australians, including Whitlam himself, believed he had been the victim of a coup. In 1979, he published his own account of the events of 1975, The Truth of the Matter, an instant best seller. Out of print for many years, it is republished by MUP on the thirtieth anniversary of the Dismissal, with a new introduction by the author and other new reference material. Passionate, pithy, learned, witty, and vigorously combative, The Truth of the Matter tells the extraordinary political story of the only Prime Minister of Australia ever deposed from office.

Everyday Revolutions

Author : Michelle Arrow
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760462977
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Revolutions written by Michelle Arrow and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s was a decade when matters previously considered private and personal became public and political. These shifts not only transformed Australian politics, they engendered far-reaching cultural and social changes. Feminists challenged ‘man-made’ norms and sought to recover lost histories of female achievement and cultural endeavour. They made films, picked up spanners and established printing presses. The notion that ‘the personal was political’ began to transform long-held ideas about masculinity and femininity, both in public and private life. In the spaces between official discourses and everyday experience, many sought to revolutionise the lives of Australian men and women. Everyday Revolutions brings together new research on the cultural and social impact of the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. Gay Liberation and Women’s Liberation movements erupted, challenging almost every aspect of Australian life. The pill became widely available and sexuality was both celebrated and flaunted. Campaigns to decriminalise abortion and homosexuality emerged across the country. Activists set up women’s refuges, rape crisis centres and counselling services. Governments responded to new demands for representation and rights, appointing women’s advisors and funding new services. Everyday Revolutions is unique in its focus not on the activist or legislative achievements of the women’s and gay and lesbian movements, but on their cultural and social dimensions. It is a diverse and rich collection of essays that reminds us that women’s and gay liberation were revolutionary movements.

Talking Up a Legacy

Author : Tom Clark
Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1760800902
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Talking Up a Legacy written by Tom Clark and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you change the government, you change the country,” Paul Keating declared. It reminds us that the outlook and actions of the government of the day have widespread ramifications in the lives of people “on the ground.” Within the extraordinary complexity that a government must be, the leading indication of its values and of the strategic thrust of its actions is the behaviour of its leading official, the prime minister. He or she is the clearest and most observed example of what a government can or cannot, will or will not do. Its particular interest is in speeches. These set pieces of talk have conventionally been regarded as each prime minister’s opportunity to entrench a legacy. A growing weight of evidence over the years since Keating’s term in office has turned the tables, though, so that we now need to see the speech itself as a “legacy medium”—like vinyl records. Talking up a Legacy does not specifically offer an insider or partisan account, but it aims to cast light on some of the most difficult challenges of political communication, using language and concepts that speak to non-specialist readers. The author has been an insider and partisan himself (as a speechwriter for premiers in Victoria and NSW).

Power Plays

Author : Laurie Oakes
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459619870
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Power Plays written by Laurie Oakes and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years, Laurie Oakes has reported on politicians and politics, the ruthless drive for power, the emotion and cold calculation, the wheeling and dealing, the backstabbing and the brawling, the triumphs and the failures and the betrayals. His weekly columns since 1987 (mostly in The Bulletin and now in the Daily Telegraph and th...

My Other World

Author : Margaret Whitlam
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781865087818
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book My Other World written by Margaret Whitlam and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Australia's best-loved public figures tells the very personal story of her great love for travelling. Best known as a national treasure, Margaret Whitlam also happens to be a tour leader extraordinaire and has visited almost every corner of the globe, taking with her hundreds of travellers on group study tours. This is Margaret's story of people and places she encountered in her other world - travelling the Wine Road of Burgundy; walking through the ancient city of Macchu Picchu; sharing a meal with a friendly family in their Moscow home; going to the opera in Vienna, and a nightclub in Istanbul.

On the Record

Author : Laurie Oakes
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623681
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book On the Record written by Laurie Oakes and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Record is a collection of the very best of Laurie Oakes' reporting over more than forty years. He is a legend in the Canberra press gallery for breaking the big stories, and asking the difficult questions. Some of the decisive points of the 2010 election campaign are classic examples of this. Some issues haven't' changed - a Liberal Party...

Machine Rules

Author : Stephen Loosley
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522867413
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Machine Rules written by Stephen Loosley and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But does a powerbroker like Stephen Loosley ever leave the political word? In his candid memoir, Loosley writes about defending the indefensible, the best way to start and kill off rumours, the value of truth in campaigning, how to use humour to squash a scandal, the key to fundraising and why bullshit always comes back to smother you.

The Spectator

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Quarterly Essay

Author : Waleed Aly
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458790428
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay written by Waleed Aly and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment all were issues to be avoided. Most profoundly, conservatives no longer seemed to have a compelling vision of the future and arguably still dont....

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen

Author : Rae Wear
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702233043
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Johannes Bjelke-Petersen written by Rae Wear and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A saviour to some, reviled by others, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen became the butt of jokes and even assassination attempts. His influence spread well beyond Queensland, and in the mid-1970s he put an unknown french polisher into the Senate to help rub out the Whitlam government.Young Joh had been a loner who worked hard to overcome crippling childhood polio and the poverty of life on his family's farm. Enduring a long apprenticeship as an opposition backbencher, he finally made it to the top, bringing to his old-style autocratic rule a more media-savvy appeal to the electorate.As this long-awaited biography reveals, Joh was as cunning as he was ruthless throughout his forty-year political career. Rae Wear analyses in detail his political psyche, his unique leadership style and the reasons for his electoral support, taking into account his Danish immigrant background and lifelong Christian piety.Essential reading for anyone interested in Australian politics, this biographical study explains in depth, for the first time, Bjelke-Petersen's unlikely elevation to the premiership and his ultimate disgrace amid revelations of widespread corruption.

The (almost) Complete Gough

Author : Barry Cohen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742696864
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The (almost) Complete Gough written by Barry Cohen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man can't help it. Self-parody, sending up other people's expectations, a love of the absurd... Gough's still going strong. To mark another birthday (and in response to popular demand) we've brought together Life With Gough and the best of Whitlam to Winston with some great newly minted Gough stories to present a bumper edition of The (almost) Complete Gough. So, once again, here's a larger-than-life Australian, infuriatingly high-falutin' and bizarrely prurient, inflating himself above politics, enjoying himself hugely at the expense of the mean-spirited, the pompous, the ingratiating, the serious and the dull. 'Here is an agreeable and welcome mix of irreverence, wit and absurdity. Here is captured some of the moods and interests that had tenancy in the Whitlam mind - the imperious, the classical, the historical, the rompish, the waggish and the outrageously provocative.' - James Killen 'Anyone who has ever struggled to suppress mirth during a church service understands the pleasure to be found in sharing Barry Cohen's witty, irreverent but affectionate anecdotes. Don't tell Gough.' - The Hon. Kim Beazley

Gough Whitlam

Author : Jenny Hocking
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522855113
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Gough Whitlam written by Jenny Hocking and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without himaGough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, 'It's been a long road, Comrade, but we're there', and walked out to meet the spotlight... Acclaimed biographer Jenny Hocking's Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is the first contemporary and definitive biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister. From his childhood in the fledging city of Canberra to his first appearance as Prime Minister (playing Neville Chamberlain), to his extensive war service in the Pacific and marriage to Margaret, the champion swimmer and daughter of Justice Wilfred Dovey, the biography draws on previously unseen archival material, extensive interviews with family and colleagues, and exclusive interviews with Gough Whitlam himself. Hocking's narrative skill and scrupulous research reveals an extraordinary and complex man, whose life is, in every way, formed by the remarkable events of previous generations of his family, and who would, in turn, change Australian political and cultural developments in the twentieth century. Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is a magnificent biography that illuminates the path that took one man to power.

Japanese Humour

Author : M. Wells
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230390064
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Humour written by M. Wells and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-06-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when it should and should not be used, what type of humour is permissible and what type forbidden, what is good and bad about humour, what should be considered funny and what should not. The book offers a framework for a general understanding of why and how societies make rules about the use of humour, and how those rules affect patterns of communication and the development of humour and comedy.

Harold Holt

Author : Ross Walker
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743822553
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Harold Holt written by Ross Walker and published by La Trobe University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was Holt's legacy more significant than in the 1967 referendum, and in helping to end the White Australia policy. At the same time, as the Vietnam War raged, Holt dramatically increased Australian troops, telling President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 that Australia was 'all the way with LBJ'. In this evocative, intimate and deeply researched biography, Ross Walker captures the worlds in which Holt moved and the people who were close to him. He reveals a popular, gentle, yet at times self-destructive man, whose tendency to always go one step further would have fatal consequences. This is a strikingly original portrait of Australia's seventeenth prime minister. 'A beautifully told story of a fascinating Australian life and a tragic prime ministership – not only in its bizarre end, but in the entanglement of an amiable, easygoing man in poisonous political rivalry, and a brutal and contentious war in Vietnam.' —Frank Bongiorno