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1 online resource (436 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Personal Details; Shame and forgiveness; Holes in the road; Send down the rain; The image of man; Hanging onto the facts; My marriage was a house of cards; Life and death; Whitlam; 1975 dismissal diary; The women in John Kerr's life; The wreckage left behind; Fraser's first cabinet meeting; Edward Gough Whitlam shuffles off his mortal coil; Political History; Franz Ferdinand and the guns of Narromine; The night Ben Chifley died; John Howard's enterprising father; Gorton's last secrets; With Charles and Di in the desert |
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Sydney, the irresistible cityBob Carr holds the fort; Arts and Artists; Harry Seidler vs Patrick Cook; A mistress with the clippers; Stanley Hawes: an honourable man a long way from Home; Lutyens fights the last battle of the Somme; Hill End: hard country, good painting; Mr Mitchell's library; MONA: art in the dark; Margaret Tuckson: the widow and the paintings; Skin in the Game; Cairns, 1974; The betrayal of the hopes of 1967; John Howard, faith and race; The lingering fear of blacks; Australia Under Howard; Australian politics in a nutshell; Pauline slays Tasmania; Brian Harradine's lunch |
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Abbott & Costello vs EllisAustralia: so British underneath; Jones, Laws and cash for comment; The Queen makes a comeback; Australia's Olympic spirit; Baying for border protection; Beazley's last stand; Arne Rinnan, sailor; Pink Pages; A night out at the Cross; Bigots in the name of Christ; Conigrave's candour; Myths and lessons of Stonewall; A politician in the steam; The business model of the faiths; Modern Warfare; A note on the language; Manning Clark, Soviet spy; Saving the nation from Salò; What's Left these days?; A common humanity; Australia, land without rights |
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Andrew Bolt bites the dustThe fright of our lives; Chris Kenny fucks one dog ... ; Howard's End; The old Voltairean; Wheat and chaff; Kingaroy farewells Joh; Shock jocks on the beaches; Slapstick and the veep; Haneef's week in the watch house; Farewell to a fine old bastard; The Writing Trade; Demidenko: history, horror and fairytales; McNeil's life sentence; I had written him a letter ... ; Farewell, dark spirit; Last train to Venice; Staying out of the picture; The wisdom of Malouf; Patrick White: the final chapter; Table for Two; And Rudd came among us ... ; 2020; The Henson panic |
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A chill in the death zoneTime on Christmas Island; Build on the rock and not upon the sand ... ; On the beach with Rudd; Eloquence or else; MacKillop makes good; If at first; Pell's nod; Jobs for the blameless; A few sleeps to victory; Back in Safe Hands; Tony Abbott: freedom rider; Slamming the door; Faction man; Behind closed doors in St Kilda; Not far to fall; Torture in the Pacific; Rome, a hard beast to wrangle; Malcolm on the Western Front; Falling in love again; Once is enough; About the Author; Back Cover |
| Summary |
An anthology of David Marr's powerful ruminations on art, religion, sex, censorship and the law, his unflinching profiles of party leaders and forensic accounts of social and political controversy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Australian literature-21st century
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Australia-Politics and government
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Australia-Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781743820674 |
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1743820674 |
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