Memoirs Costello Coleman The Costello Memoirs - Peter Costello with Peter Coleman Brand New Hardback Book : .2008 edition Get the Paperback edition of The Costello Memoirs click here 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 powerhous extra info.....
in USED Dismissal Paperback The Dismissal - by Paul Kelly Reprint of the Unmaking of Gough to tie in with 1983 TV mini-series Used paperback: .1983 edition in good condition On Remembrance Day 1975 the Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr sacked the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict as Whitlam's reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable and increasingly bitter conservative opposition. The focus of the Opposition's scheming was the Senate where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a political crisis. Whitlam famous for his 'crash through or crash' style refused to compromise with hi more here.....
Dunstan's Don Don Dunstan's Cookbook Used hardback: .1976 edition Dust Jack hard back good condition - clean book tight binding - minor chipping to board edges - no other marks tears - loose or missing pages One of the few politicians ever to write a cookbook! A review of Don Dunstan's Cookbook by Genevieve Harris in 2006 in Adelaide Now Thirty years after South Australian renaissance man and premier Don Dunstan published his cookbook the recipes remain as modern as ever. Courage innovation and change were the hallmarks of one of South Australia's most remarkable premiers Don Dunstan who served in the post for a short time in 1967 and again from 1970 to 1979. He not only steered many forward-thinking chan find out more.....
G Whitlam Constitution Australias USED Paperback E On Gough Whitlam On Australia's Constitution - by E.G. Whitlam (Gough Whitlam) Used paperback: .1977 edition (Good Condition) Widescope 1977. 374 p.. Get other books by and about Gough Whitlam click here A collection of speeches dating from 1957 to 1975 made by Gough Whitlam addressing the issue of Australias Constitution. Includes the Australian Labor Party policy speeches given by Gough Whitlam in 1972 1974 and 1975. About The Australian Constitution: The Constitution of Australia is the law under which the Australian Commonwealth Government operates. It consists of several documents. The most important is the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Constitution was approved in referendums held more information.....
Edwards Story Keating - The Inside Story - John Edwards - The Man - The Myth - The Record Used hardback: .1996 edition Hard Back book is in average condition - ex library book - plastic covering. clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing scuffing to boards at edged - stamped 'cancelled' inside The definative biography of Paul Keating written by John Edwards was Paul Keatings Economics Advisor from 1991 to 1994 About the subject Paul Keating Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer in the Hawke government from 1983. As Prime Minister he is noted for his many legislative more here.....
Jim The Quiet Revolution - Jim Cairns - Revised 1975 edition Used paperback: .1975 edition good condition First published before the eve of the historic election of the Australian Labor Party in 1972 and revised in 1975. About the author Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also a prominent economist and a prolific writer on ec more.....
Felicia Memoirs Don Political Felicia - Don Dunstan Used hardback: .1981 edition hard back good condition - clean book tight binding - minor scuffing to boards at corners - no other marks tears - loose or missing pages Macmillan 1981 1981 328 pp. indexed 8 pp black and white photographs photographic illustrated dust wrapper. The memoirs of a onr of the most colourful and controversial figures in Australias Political History. A Labor party politician whose charisma and sense of social justice enabled him to institute changes in South Australia that were soon echoed elsewhere in Australia. About the Author Don Dunstan Donald Allan Dunstan was born in Suva Fiji on 21 September 1926. After early schooling he transferred to S click here.....
Killen Killen - Inside Australian Politics - Jim Killen Used paperback: .1989 edition Paperback book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages Jim Killens Biography covering from the 1950s to the 1980s including the Dimissal of the Whitlam Goverment About the subject Jim Killen (Sir James Killen) Sir Denis James "Jim" Killen AC KCMG (23 November 1925 Dalby Queensland Australia - 12 January 2007 Brisbane Queensland Australia) was an Australian politician. Killen was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland where he graduated in law. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. After t extra info.....
Blanche by Biography Robert J Hawke - A Biography by Blanche d'Alpuget used hardback: .1982 edition - in very good condition Other Books on Bob Hawke Leadership largely is the essence of political life. Bob Hawke has been a leader in every arena he entered — academia student affairs the trade union movement and federal politics. He won four Federal Elections in a row a feat achieved by no other Labor Prime Minister. This is his own account of his remarkable life. A man of destiny pragmatist and visionary with plans for national reconciliation and for creating a new role for Australia in world affairs Hawke challenged much of the conventional wisdom of public life and brought an extraordinary sense of purpo find out more.....
Mayer Australia's Power Henry Election Labor to Power - Henry Mayer - Australia's 1972 Election Used hardback: .1973 edition good condition - some fading to spine Labor to power comprises more than 60 articles - by political scientists journalists elected and defeated candidates and more - on Australias 1972 election. About the Australian 1972 Federal Election The elections were held in Australia on 2 December 1972. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives. No Senate seats were up for election on that day because their terms ended although Queensland did hold a by-election for a single Senate seat because it had fallen vacant when Liberal Senator Annabelle Rankin resigned in 1971. The Queensland Parliament's temporary appoin more.....
Hugh F John F Kennedy: Potrait of a President - Hugh Sidey Used hardback: .1965 edition good condition Hugh Sidey was White House Corrospondent for Time and knew JFK over six years. About the subject John F Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy often referred to by his initials JFK was the thirty-fifth President of the United States serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. After Kennedy's military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 during World War II in the South Pacific his aspirations turned political with the encouragement and grooming of his father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives f more here.....
Fischer Boree Rees Boy Time Story from USED Peter Creek The Boy from Boree Creek - The Tim Fischer Story - Peter Rees Used hardback: .2001 edition in good condition - no dust jacket This is the story of Tim Fischer's journey from a country town in far southwest NSW to the centre of political power. It tells of an individual quietly determined to push past barriers and who succeeded where very few expected him to; of someone prepared to be different and to make that difference part of a distinctive personal style. Here too is the very personal story of a man who came to acknowledge the conflict between the demands of a high-profile public life and the needs of a family life and made the toughest political decision of his career - to step down as D click here.....
(Hardback) Gorton Experiment Alan Reid The Gorton Experiment - Alan Reid Used Hardback: .1971 edition Hardback book is in very good condition - dustjacket is torn - clean book tight binding -- no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages The Rise and Fall of John Grey Gorton - Prime Minister By Alan Reid Political Journalist About the subject John Gorton (Sir John Grey Gorton) Sir John Grey Gorton GCMG AC CH (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) Australian politician was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia. Gorton was born near Melbourne the illegitimate son of Alice Sinn the daughter of a railway worker and English orange orchardist John Rose Gorton. The older Gorton and his wife Kathleen had emigrating to Australia by way click here.....
Kelly Gough Paul Paperback The Unmaking of Gough - by Paul Kelly Get other Books about Gough Whitlam click here Get other books about the 1975 dismissal click here Used paperback: .1976 edition in average condition fading to cover and spine taped spine. Pages are all good. On Remembrance Day 1975 the Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr sacked the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict as Whitlam's reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable and increasingly bitter conservative opposition. The focus of the Opposition's scheming was the Senate where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a click here.....
with Gough Life Cohen USED Life with Gough - Barry Cohen Used hardback: .1996 edition in excellent condition (as new) hard cover book is in excellent condition good dustjacket- clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages dustjacket - boards in excellent condition Revered and reviled Gough Whitlam and his works have been part of public life for more than a generation. Here from friends foes and innocent bystanders is the best of the vast horde of Gough stories authentic and apocryphal infuriatingly high falutin and risque deliciously self-mocking and uproariously funny. With the help of some of our best cartoonists Life With Gough presents a larger-than-life Australian-a tall poppy of more.....
End Certainty The End of Certainty - Paul Kelly - The Story of the 1980s Used paperback: .1992 edition Paperback book is an ex library book in average condition - no loose pages - tight binding The End of Certainty is a classic study of power personality and national destiny. From boom to recession Hawke to Keating and Labor's victory for the 'true believers' in 1993 Paul Kelly has written the ultimate inside story of how the 1980s changed Australia and its political parties forever. His detailed scrutiny of the inner working of the Hawke-Keating partnership and its slow disintegration his unravelling of the crippling rivalries for the Liberal Party leadership and his burrowing into cabinet room struggles more.....
USED by Bill Cameron A (softback) A Life on the Left - Clyde Cameron by Bill Guy Used softback: .1999 edition in excellent condition Soft cover book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages Clyde cameron (1913-2008) The lives of a select number of Australians reflect and illuminate the life and times of the nation itself. This is the story of one such life. For over seventy years Clyde Cameron has been a member of the Australian Labor Party; for just as long he has been a trade unionist. The ALP and the union movement have shaped his life and in turn he has done much to shape their history. Twice he played a crucial role in determining the direction taken by the Lab extra info.....
ofPresident Joe Selling McGinniss The Selling of The President by Joe McGinniss Used hardback: .1970 UK edition reasonable condition wrinkled dust jacket - ex-library book This is the book that catapulted Joe McGinniss to nearly icon-status at the age of 25 in 1969. At the time it was a shockingly revealing book at how presidential candidate Richard Nixon was being sold - gasp - like a product. The original book jacket featured Nixon's face on a pack of cigarettes as if the notion of Madison Avenue ad-men playing a pivotal role in a presidential campaign was dirty. The book became such a classic that it remains assigned reading in many government classes to this day. About the 1968 Presidential Election campaign The United S more details.....
NEW Meditations Marcus Aurelius Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Brand New - Translated by Martin Hammond with an introduction by Diskin Clay Meditations is the title of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in "highly-educated" Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written in Sirmium where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. We know that some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia because internal notes tell us that the second book was written when he was campai extra info.....
Troubled Cairns Waters Oil Oil in Troubled Waters - Jim Cairns Used paperback: .1976 edition good condition - pages yellowed due to age Former Deputy Prime Minister Treasurer and Minister int he Australia Labor Government analyses the local and international forces that were mobilised to engineer the dimissal of the Government. Jim Cairns view of the dismissal. About the Author Dr Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Mo extra info.....
Australian (Hardback) Politics Inside Killen Jim Killen - Inside Australian Politics - Jim Killen Used Hardback: .1985 edition Hardback book is in very good condition - clean book tight binding -slightly creased dust jacket - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages Jim Killens Biography covering from the 1950s to the 1980s including the Dimissal of the Whitlam Goverment About the subject Jim Killen (Sir James Killen) Sir Denis James "Jim" Killen AC KCMG (23 November 1925 Dalby Queensland Australia - 12 January 2007 Brisbane Queensland Australia) was an Australian politician. Killen was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland where he graduated in law. He served in the Royal Australian Air For click here.....
Man A Foolish Passionate Man - Paul Ormonde - a Biography of Jim Cairns Used paperback: .1981 edition good condition A biography of the man that became Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Treasurer About the subject Dr Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also a prominent economist and a prolific writer on economic and socia more here.....
Don Paul Portrait Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart - Don Watson - A Potrait of Paul Keating PM Used Softcover: .2002 edition Soft cover book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages 1st Edition has an inscription (to Dad) on front page Don Watson's brilliant award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating now in paperback. Since its publication in March 2002 RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART has sold over 50 000 copies and won a string of prestiguous awards including The Age Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book The Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the National Biography Award. Political commentator - and himself a Keating biographer more information.....
Memiors Hawke Hawke Bob The Hawke Memoirs - Bob Hawke used hardback: .1994 edition - good condition - no dust jacket Other Books on Bob Hawke Leadership largely is the essence of political life. Bob Hawke has been a leader in every arena he entered — academia student affairs the trade union movement and federal politics. He won four Federal Elections in a row a feat achieved by no other Labor Prime Minister. This is his own account of his remarkable life. A man of destiny pragmatist and visionary with plans for national reconciliation and for creating a new role for Australia in world affairs Hawke challenged much of the conventional wisdom of public life and brought an extraordinary sense of purpose to his g more information.....
Confessions as USED Clyde Connell told The Confessions of Clyde Cameron 1913-1990 - as told to Daniel Connell Used hardback: .1990 edition in excellent condition hard cover book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages dustjacket - boards in excellent condition The Confessions of Clyde Cameron spans nearly eight decades of Australian social and political history. Whether Clyde Cameron is discussing his mother the Aboriginal Camerons getting paid for shearing his first sheep even though it died in his hands working the sheds along the river Darling as a union official corruption in the AWU his admiration for South Australian Liberal Premier Tom Playford Don Dunstan spurni click here.....
Richard USED The Real John Kerr -Richard Hall Used paperback: .1978 edition in fair condition - book cover however is coming away from spine and spine is splitting. A rare book - Written by Richard Hall an ex advisor to the Whitlam Government this paints an unflattering portrait of John Kerr About Sir John Kerr Sir John Robert Kerr AK GCMG GCVO (24 September 1914 24 March 1991) 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and 18th Governor-General of Australia dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975 marking the climax of one of the most significant constitutional crises in Australian history. Kerr's career Kerr was born in Balmain a working-class suburb of Sydn extra info.....
about that! Don't you worry about that! - The Joh Bjelke-Petersen Memoirs used hardback: .1990 edition - in good condition The Memiors of Joh Bjelke-Petersen Other Books on Joh Bjelke-Petersen About Joh Bjelke-Petersen Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen KCMG (13 January 1911 – 23 April 2005) New Zealand-born Australian politician was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of the state of Queensland. He held office from 1968 to 1987 a period that saw considerable economic development in the state. His uncompromising conservatism (including his role within the downfall of the Whitlam federal government) his political longevity and his leadership of a government that in its latter ye click here.....
Watson Heart Keating Recollections of a Bleeding Heart - Don Watson - A Potrait of Paul Keating PM Used hardback: .2002 edition Hard Back book is in excellent condition close to new condition Don Watson's brilliant award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating Since its publication in March 2002 RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART has sold over 50 000 copies and won a string of prestiguous awards including The Age Book of the Year and Best Non-fiction book The Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the National Biography Award. Political commentator - and himself a Keating biographer - Michael Gordon calls the book 'a masterpiece...simply the best inside account of life politics and combat inside the highest more details.....
Political Petersen Joh Hugh Johannes Joh - Hugh Lunn The Life and Political Adventures of Joh Bjelke-Petersen used hardback: .1978 edition - in very good condition The Unauthorised Biography of Joh Bjelke-Petersen Other Books on Joh Bjelke-Petersen About Joh Bjelke-Petersen Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen KCMG (13 January 1911 – 23 April 2005) New Zealand-born Australian politician was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of the state of Queensland. He held office from 1968 to 1987 a period that saw considerable economic development in the state. His uncompromising conservatism (including his role within the downfall of the Whitlam federal government) his political longevity and his leadership of a g more.....
Dismissal Constitutional DVD series Australian TV Crisis Mini The Dismissal - TV Mini - Series on DVD (Brand New and in stock) Region 4 DVD (Australia) - 2 Discs - 270 minutes The constituional crisis that eminated from the sacking of the Australian prime Minister Gough Whitlam on Nov 11 1975 still reverberates to this day. The 1983 mini-series from Kennedy Miller brings to life every extra-ordinary detail and still rates as one of the most watched television in Australia. The Dismissal features one of the best Australian casts ever assembled including Max Phipps John Mellion John Stanton Ruth Cracknell Bill Hunter John Hargraves Nancy Hayes Ed Devereaux Robyn Nevin and many more. About the Dismissal The crisis of 1975 might not have occurred had the S find out more.....
