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Absolutely Revolting
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'BATSHIT BORING BOOKS'

Tim Colebatch's review of my book Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power (November 2015) quotes a comment I made to The Age about not wanting to write 'one of those batshit boring books' about politics. For the record, I was not referring to his biography of Rupert Hamer, which I read and admired. The batshit boring books shall remain nameless. As shall their publisher.

 


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