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1 online resource |
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Cover; Author biography; Title page; Imprint page; Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue; Catch; Charlie Foxtrot Politics; Cops and Cockroaches; Memo from 'Bongo Land'; Enter the Independents; Shellbacks and Troglodytes; Choking the Piñata'; Treachery Place; Outnumbered; Julia, Boudicca; The Golden Four; The Picture of Dorian Gray; A Dark Horse; Kill; Skylab; An Unholy Trinity; A Machine Made of People; Citizen Steve; A Blinding Aura; Crossing the Rubicon; Broken Glass; One Crowded Year, Part One; One Crowded Year, Part Two; A Death in the Family; Heading for Armageddon |
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'Jesus Fucking Bananas'A Taxi Called Kevin; The Smartest Person in the Room; Running Out of Friends; Postscript -- The Road to Ithaka; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Index |
| Summary |
Power is the only measure of a politician that matters: how they win power, how they use power, how they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics-the winning, the using, the losing. Joel Deane's gripping study of the politics of power takes us into the inner sanctum of state and national politics in Australia, investigating how four friends-Steve Bracks, John Brumby, John Thwaites, and Rob Hulls-beat the factions, won office in Victoria, then tried to hijack Canberra. It delivers a slice of political gothic, exploring |
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Australian |
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Australian Labor Party. Victorian Branch.
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Australian Labor Party. Victorian Branch fast |
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Power (Social sciences) -- Australia -- Victoria
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Politicians -- Australia -- Victoria
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Political planning -- Australia -- Victoria
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Political planning
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Politicians
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Politics and government
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Power (Social sciences)
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Victoria -- Politics and government -- 1990-
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Victoria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780702251627 |
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0702251623 |
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9780702251634 |
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0702251631 |
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0702249807 |
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9780702249808 |
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