| Description |
xxiii, 453 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Beyond the bicentennial -- 2. Losing the plot -- 3. As game as Tom Curnow -- 4. Doc Evatt and the tolpuddle matyrs -- 5. 1901 -- 6. Independence day? -- 7. In a Tasmanian ferry, on the Thames -- 8. Bringing back the bones -- 9. Rabbit proof fence and the great socialist shame -- 10. The trials of Nancy Young -- 11. Give Adelaide back (Grotius on the Torrens) -- 12. For a Tumut schoolteacher, blown up at Bapaume -- 13. You've got to be carefully taught: our South Pacific -- 14. 44 days -- 15. Hicks in Guantanamo -- 16. Send in the drones -- 17. The right to know -- 18. Rupert the bare -- 19. Lady Chatterly at fifty -- 20. We name the guilty men -- 21. Teach the children well -- 22. Tosca and the ticking time bomb -- 23. Dr Haneef -- 24. Under a borrowed mortar board -- 25. The great charter debate: Father Frank's caravanserai, with a statute of liberty -- 26. Creativity: the tonic for a nation -- 27. All the global atheists -- 28. The Queen and I -- 29. Mea maxima culpa -- 30. The law of the rings -- 31. Farewell, Rumpole -- 32. Vaclav Haval, and all the jazz -- 33. Singapore's lion -- 34. Michael Kirby at seventy -- 35. The case for wikileaks -- 36. Assange in Ecuador |
| Summary |
The speeches and essays collected in this book provoke, disturb and entertain. Here you will find new heroes, insights into Australian education, encounters with Vaclev Havel, Rupert Murdoch, John Mortimer and Julian Assange, reflections on worldwide problems such as torture, terrorism and the Catholic church, and much else besides |
| Analysis |
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders |
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Anecdotes |
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Assange, Julian |
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Australian |
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Biography |
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Freedom of speech |
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History |
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Human rights |
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Political conditions |
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Social conditions |
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Social customs |
| Notes |
"Vintage Books, Australia" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [422]-432) and index |
| Subject |
Robertson, Geoffrey -- Anecdotes.
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Robertson, Geoffrey, 1946- -- Anecdotes
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Australian essays -- 20th century.
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Australian essays -- 21st century.
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Human rights -- Anecdotes.
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Human rights -- Australia.
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Human rights.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302
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Australia -- Biography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- Anecdotes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0857981897 |
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9780857981899 (paperback) |
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