Australian Politics
Prime Ministers’ Wives by Diane Langmore & Suffrage to Sufferance by Janine Haines
by Audrey Oldfield •
Ross Fitzgerald reviews 'Billy Snedden: An unlikely Liberal' by Billy Mackie Snedden and M. Bernie Schedvin
by Ross Fitzgerald •
Neither a conventional biography nor an autobiography, Billy Snedden is a story told in two quite distinct and authentic voices. There is that of the late Sir Billy Snedden, Liberal Party leader from 1972 to 1975, and Dr Bernie Schedvin, lecturer in politics at La Trobe University.
... (read more)From Fraser to Hawke by Brian Head and Allan Patience & The Hawke–Keating Hijack by Dean Jaensch
by Judith Brett •
Malcolm Fraser On Australia edited by D.M. White and D.A. Kemp
by James Walter •
The Ministers’ Minders: Personal advisers in national government by James Walter
by Judith Brett •
George Munster reviews 'The Things We Did Last Summer' by Bob Ellis, '31 Days to Power' by Robert Haupt with Michelle Grattan, 'Time of Testing' by Craig McGregor, and 'Gamble for Power' by Anne Summers
by George Munster •
‘In fifty years’ time,’ Robert Haupt and Michelle Grattan write in 31 Days to Power. ‘historians will look at the 1983 elections, see that inflation, unemployment and interest rates were at high levels compared to the past, and conclude that Fraser could never have won’.
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