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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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Wit of Whitlam written by Deane Wells and published by . This book was released on 1970 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:

WIT OF WHITLAM.

Author : JAMES. CARLETON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781458789068
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book WIT OF WHITLAM. written by JAMES. CARLETON and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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).

The Book of Paul

Author :
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231738
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Paul written by and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating – at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip – on John Howard: “The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.” On Peter Costello: “The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg.” On John Hewson: “[His performance] is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.” On Andrew Peacock: “...what we have here is an intellectual rust bucket.” On Wilson Tuckey: “...you stupid foul-mouthed grub.” On Tony Abbott: “If Tony Abbott ends up the prime minister of Australia, you’ve got to say, God help us.” And that’s just a taste.

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.

Biography

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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....

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

The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays

Author : Charles B. Strozier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475718381
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PETER GAY The syllabus of errors rehearsing the offenses of psychohistory looks devastating and seems irrefutable: crimes against the English language, crimes against sdentific procedures, crimes against common sense itself. These objects are real enough, but their contours-and their gravity mysteriously change with the perspective of the critic. From the outside, psychohistorians are to academic history what psychoanalysts are to academic psychology: a monolithic band of fanatics, making the same errors, committing the same offenses, aH in the same way. But seen close up, psychohistorians (just like psychoanalysts) turn out to be a highly differentiated, even a cheerfuHy contentious, lot. Disciples of Hartmann jostle discoverers of Kohut, imperialists claiming the whole domain of the past debate with modest isolationists, orthodox Freudians who insist that psychoanalysis engrosses the arsenal of psychohistorical method find themselves beleaguered by sociological revisionists. The charges that confound some psychohistorians glance off the armor of others. Yet there are three potent objections, aimed at the heart of psy chohistory, however it is conceived, that the psychohistorian ignores at his periI. It would be a convenient, but it is a whoHy unacceptable, defense to dismiss them as forms of resistance. The days are gone when the advocates of psychoanalysis could checkmate reasoned critidsms by psychoanalyzing the critic. To summarize these objections, psychohistory is Utopian, vulgar, ix x FOREWORD and trivial.

Speeches that Change the World

Author : Alan J. Whiticker
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9390166896
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Speeches that Change the World written by Alan J. Whiticker and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Speeches by • Mahatma Gandhi • Indira Gandhi • Adolf Hitler • Martin Luther King • Arundhati Roy and many more A COLLECTION OF GREAT AND POWERFUL SPEECHES THAT AFFECTED THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD covers speeches about power and equality. These include recurring themes such as politics and diplomacy, war and peace, freedom and justice, civil rights and human rights. What they all have in common is the rhetoric: the power of persuasion. The speeches reflect historic events of one of the most cataclysmic centuries as told by its heroes, villains, martyrs and monsters. Josef Stalin and Mahatma Gandhi speak side by side with Nelson Mandela, Joseph McCarthy, the Kennedy brothers and Fidel Castro. Speeches by George W. Bush and Arundhati Roy show conflicting views of our modern world. These speeches carry the hopes and regrets of our modern world, and they have become even more powerful and poignant with the passage of time.