| Description |
ix, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
The pitch -- The victory -- The precipice -- A hard interview -- Gillard's story -- Big dreams -- Train wreck -- Blood and guts -- The long game -- The challenge (Part I) -- The challenge (Part II) -- The long shadow -- No boundaries -- No-one escapes blame |
| Summary |
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga itself. Rudd and Gillard dominate the drama as they strain to claim the narrative of Labor's years in power. The journey to screen for each of their interviews is telling in itself. Kevin Rudd gives his painful account of the period and recalled in vivid detail the events of losing the prime ministership. Julia Gillard is frank and unsparing of her colleagues. More than a hundred people were interviewed for The Killing Season -- ministers, backbenchers, staffers, party officials, pollsters and public servants -- recording their vivid accounts of the public and private events that made the Rudd and Gillard governments and then brought them undone. It is a damning portrait of a party at war with itself: the personal rivalries and the bitter defeats that have come to define the Rudd-Gillard era |
| Analysis |
ALP |
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Australian |
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Gillard, Julia |
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Party cohesion and loyalty |
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Party leadership |
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Rudd, Kevin |
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Television programs |
| Notes |
"Gold Walkley Award-Winning Journalist"--Cover |
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POL |
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Also issued online |
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Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017, Non-fiction |
| Subject |
Gillard, Julia.
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Rudd, Kevin, 1957-
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Australian Labor Party -- Leadership.
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Australian Labor Party.
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Interviews.
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Documentary television programs -- Australia.
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Government and the press -- Australia.
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Interviews.
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Nonfiction television programs -- Australia.
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Prime ministers -- Australia -- Interviews.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009600
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
Drum, Patricia, author
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| ISBN |
9780522869958 |
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