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Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, London, 1961. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 239 pages. Dust jacket has tape marks to endpapers. 240 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; Inventory No: 229305. .

Wilkinson Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, 2017. Softcover. As New. Thoughtfully curated collected of articles from The Spectator Australia, spanning 2014-17. The Spectator Australia is a composite of the UK Spectator and original Australian content. Between 2014 and 2017 the magazine grew substantially in Australia, and the best content from those years is collected here for fans of the magazine, old and new. Rowan Dean has compiled an impressive selection of articles that capture the unique flavor of the magazine and ones that also cover the major themes explored in its pages during an undeniably turbulent time for Australian culture and politics. Topical events are explored and covered, but so too are the bigger themes that often only appear to other observers and players much further down the track. For keen followers of Australian and indeed global politics, it may well come as a surprise to look at the date of many of these articles and realize just how perceptive and prescient many of… Read More

Hardie Grant, Australia, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s 29th Prime Minister, tells the remarkable story of his life in this lively political page-turner. When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be over. But a right-wing insurgency brutally cut down Turnbull’s time in office after three years, leaving many Australians asking, ‘Why?’ Exceptionally candid and compelling, A Bigger Picture is the definitive narrative of Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership. He describes how he legalised same-sex marriage, established Snowy Hydro 2.0, stood up to Donald Trump, rebooted Australia’s defence industry and many more achievements – remarkable in their… Read More

F.W. Cheshire, Australia, 1965. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 87 pages. A bit worn around the edges with a few bumps collected no doubt over the years from normal use.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; Inventory No: 226606. .

National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 2002. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 123 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Cartoons; Comics & Graphic Novels; Australian::Australian Politics. ISBN: 1876944153. ISBN/EAN: 9781876944155. Inventory No: 263542. . 9781876944155

Murray David, Australia, 2004. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Toni Crago. Edmund Barton - Alfed Deakin - William Morris Hughes - Joseph Lyons - Arthur Fadden - John Curtin - Ben Chifley - Robert Menzies - Harold Holt - John Gorton - William McMahon - Gough Whitlam - Malcolm Fraser - Robert (Bob) Hawke - Paul Keating - John Howard. 31 pages. With colour and black and white illustrations . Illustrator: Toni Crago. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; ISBN: 1876553308. ISBN/EAN: 9781876553302. Inventory No: 250614. . 9781876553302

Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government. In a political career spanning eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and fighting five elections. What were the backroom deals that made the GST possible? How did Costello transform the Australian economy from Asia's 'white trash' into the economic powerhouse able to withstand the financial meltdown of the late 1990s? What did Costello make of the Liberal Leaders he served with, and why did he find it so easy to trounce Labor's Shadow Treasurers? For the first time, the facts about the McLachlan memorandum on the leadership transition from Howard to Costello are revealed. How-and why-did the Liberal… Read More

Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1972. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Discolouration to outer page edges. 418 pages. Light tanning to pages. Cover edges rubbed. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; ISBN: 0207125333. ISBN/EAN: 9780207125331. Inventory No: 263700.. 9780207125331

Jeparit Press, Australia, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. “The essence of a good speech is that the speaker should have something to say which he is resolved to convey to his listeners in the simplest, most intelligible, and most persuasive language.” -- Sir Robert Menzies. ‘If you want to govern a free people successfully for four terms, here’s how.’ -- John O’Sullivan. John Howard could convey more in a single speech than lesser politicians articulate in a lifetime. Through tragedy, discord and triumph, he addressed the mood of the nation with uncommon good sense. This selection is a reminder of the values and conviction that made our second longest serving prime minister such a persuasive orator. Editor David Furse-Roberts is Research Fellow at the Menzies Research Centre. He holds a PhD in history from the University of New South Wales and is the editor of Menzies: The Forgotten Speeches. 374 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Read More

Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A riveting chronicle of life inside politics. The backroom deals, the frontroom coniving, the bitter defeat of idealism and the triumph of opportunism. Foxing to top of page edges. 430 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; ISBN: 0522852157. ISBN/EAN: 9780522852158. Inventory No: 267637.. 9780522852158

HarperCollins, Australia, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. New, updated version of the bestselling political biography of 2010. This edition is revised and contains some completely new content from Mr Howard, including his thoughts on the recent NSW elections, the current state of the two main political parties in Australia and major events on the international scene. John Howard's autobiography, Lazarus Rising, is the biggest-selling political memoir Australia has seen. In it he talks about his love for his family, his rollercoaster ride to the Lodge and how - as prime minister - he responded to issues like climate change and the war on terrorism. Drawing on his deep interest in history, he paints a fascinating picture of a changing Australia. In this new revised edition, he also analyses the cataclysmic lead-up to the 2010 election and the vexed political paradigm that emerged. From the future prospects of the Greens and Independents to the performance of Barnaby Joyce,… Read More

HarperCollins, Australia, 2011. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. New, updated version of the bestselling political biography of 2010. This edition is revised and contains some completely new content from Mr Howard, including his thoughts on the recent NSW elections, the current state of the two main political parties in Australia and major events on the international scene. John Howard's autobiography, Lazarus Rising, is the biggest-selling political memoir Australia has seen. In it he talks about his love for his family, his rollercoaster ride to the Lodge and how - as prime minister - he responded to issues like climate change and the war on terrorism. Drawing on his deep interest in history, he paints a fascinating picture of a changing Australia. In this new revised edition, he also analyses the cataclysmic lead-up to the 2010 election and the vexed political paradigm that emerged. From the future prospects of the Greens and Independents to the performance of Barnaby Joyce, Howard pulls… Read More

Melboure University Press, Carlton, VIC, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The March of Patriots looks at the creation of a new Australian Settlement during the 1991-2003 era of Paul Keating and John Howard. Keating and Howard were the first two Australian prime ministers of the globalised age. They were raised together, fashioned by the same forces with careers that paralleled each other. They sought to create a new set of faiths for their parties, Labor and Liberal, in an age where the old beliefs were obsolete. In this sense they were prophets for their tribes offering a fresh interpretation of Labor and Liberal ideology for a new century. Keating and Howard are best understood as change agents, adapting their parties and their nation to a new course. This is the story of two experiments in prime ministerial power and of two leaders divided by temperament, cultural outlook and perceptions of national identity, yet united in much of their economic and social policy.… Read More

Hachette, Australia, 2014. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Gough had no small talk, Margaret had the gift of easy conversation. He was often ill-at-ease in company and preferred his books. She was warm, inclusive and jollied him along. He had a vicious tongue and a quick temper. She always tried to see the best in people. He knew everything about the ideology, history and heroes of the labour movement. She trusted her instincts. They saw each other as equals and never hesitated to express their different viewpoints. He may have passed the laws that changed the nation, but she made it possible.This is a story of love, respect, struggle, success, failure, disappointment and resilience. The strength and endurance of this remarkable relationship helped change our nation politically, culturally and socially. Neither Gough Whitlam nor Margaret Dovey would have developed into what each became without the influence of the other. Through every major political change, every election… Read More

Penguin Books, Australia, 2020. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The Labor Party was the unbeatable favourite to win the 2019 election right up until the polls closed and voters delivered the shock verdict. If the results surprised pundits, they also shocked Bill Shorten and his frontbench who had spent the final weeks of the campaign carefully planning for their first days in office. The cast of villains to blame was long- billionaire Clive Palmer's grotesque $60 million spend-a-thon, the death tax scare campaign, Bill Shorten's unpopularity, the Murdoch tabloids and Labor's tax-and-spend policy agenda that included a crackdown on franking credits that was too hard to explain but too easy for the Liberals to demonise. How did the Labor Party lose the unloseable election? Party Animals uncovers the secret history of a Labor fiasco, the untold story behind Scott Morrison's miracle. 314 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Politics; Politics &… Read More

Australian Institute of Political Science, Australia, 1949. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Includes separate stapled booklet with Appendix Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; Inventory No: 226601..

Widescope International Publishers, Australia, 1975. Revised Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Updated after two years in Government, Jim Cairn's shared his frustration with bureaucracy and the political process to affect real change in people's lives. "To Caroline & Grant, best wishes, Jim Cairns." Also signed by his partner, Junie Morosi. 149 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; ISBN: 0869320076. ISBN/EAN: 9780869320075. Inventory No: 268070.. 9780869320075

Widescope International Publishers, Australia, 1975. Softcover. Good Condition. To Caroline & Grant, best wishes, Junie Morosi.Jim Cairns." Also signed by her partner, Jim Cairns. 118 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; ISBN: 0869320092. ISBN/EAN: 9780869320099. Inventory No: 268071.. 9780869320099

Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2016. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The Liberal Party took a risk replacing Tony Abbott with Malcolm Turnbull. They had seen how voters could turn when the ALP tore down a first-term prime minister. But MPs were desperate, having witnessed the collapse in polling during Abbott's prime ministership. By the time Turnbull called the election it was still unclear what he wanted to achieve. He seemed strangely underprepared for a job that he had fought so long to win. Turnbull leads a party whose culture he doesn't share. While the narrow election victory may have justified the gamble to place him in office, does Turnbull have the leadership qualities needed to break the cycle of division and instability of the last decade? 200 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; ISBN/EAN: 97805228707323. Inventory No: 235855. . 97805228707323

Leslie Frewin, London, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket has a closed tear to top of front and rear covers . 127 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Politics; Politics & Government; Inventory No: 268436..