Tales from the Political Trenches
A Politics, Womens, Cultural book. As an ALP hack and in Sydney during the 2007 election campaign, I found it interesting to read her story...
An intimate account of one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian politics as well as a tale of personal change, this memoir discusses what went wrong during the 2010 elections—which left the Labor party clinging to the wreckage and forced into minority government. Bringing a reporter’s eye and an insider’s knowledge to a story that has caused despair among Labor supporters and produced disillusionment among the electorate, this book counters the view that Julia Gillard was a reluctant deputy who was forced to move against a chaotic and dysfunctional Kevin Rudd—and offers a different version of events.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: 9780522862218 / 0
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I've read some great and revealing political books but this was not one of them. I found parts of it plain boring and got lost in the plethora of names...I must have been in the 1% of the population who failed to rate a mention. There were a few good chapters (very few) and I struggled to get a grip on some of the word usage. For entertainment... I knew this would be a hit or a miss - for me, too much jumping around time wise in the first few pages had me giving up quickly. As an ALP hack and in Sydney during the 2007 election campaign, I found it interesting to read her story about her time in Politics as well as why we didn't hear more from her. It soon became apparent that it was the party machine's slight obsession with keeping on message at all costs But as I got through the book I found that it was...
