The killing season uncut / Sarah Ferguson with Patricia Drum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Sarah, author.

Drum, Patricia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gillard, Julia.

Rudd, Kevin, 1957-.

Rudd, Kevin.

Australian Labor Party.

Nonfiction television programs--Australia.

Nonfiction television programs.

Government and the press--Australia.

Government and the press.

Australia--Politics and government--21st century.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga itself.Rudd and Gillard dominate the drama as they strain to claim the narrative of Labor's years in power. The journey to screen for each of their interviews is telling in itself. Kevin Rudd gives his painful account of the period and recalled in vivid detail the events of losing the prime ministership. Julia Gillard is frank and unsparing of her colleagues.More than a hundred people were interviewed for The Killing Season —ministers, backbenchers, staffers, party officials, pollsters and public servants—recording their vivid accounts of the public and private events that made the Rudd and Gillard governments and then brought them undone. It is a damning portrait of a party at war with itself: the personal rivalries and the bitter defeats that have come to define the Rudd-Gillard era."The making of The Killing Season matched the drama on screen and that's a story we wanted to tell. And now we have a place for the episodes of rich material we could have put into a 5-part series." — Sarah Ferguson

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Authors' Note

Prologue

1. The Pitch

2. The Victory

3. The Precipice

4. A Hard Interview

5. Gillard's Story

6. Big Dreams

7. Train Wreck

8. Blood and Guts

9. The Long Game

10. The Challenge (Part I)

11. The Challenge (Part II)

12. The Long Shadow

13. No Boundaries

14. No-one Escapes Blame

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522869965

0522869963

OCLC:

1493617605