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The best Australian political writing 2009 / edited by Eric Beecher.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia--Politics and government--2001-.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- In The Best Australian Political Writing 2009, Crikey publisher Eric Beecher selects the most incisive and entertaining writing about the notable events and names of the past year. From the Prime Minister's historic apology speech and the global financial crisis to the election of the first black American President, it has been an era-defining twelve months. Leading political commentators chart these momentous times and look at the issues that have divided the country - climate change, leadership contests, the Bill Henson controversy and more.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 View from the Lodge-The Rudd Era
- Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples
- The future guy
- The contrast could not have been greater
- Why I won't be going to the 2020 summit
- Distant goals out of focus
- Rudderless PM needs focus
- Politics of style over substance
- Cut the spin and tell us what you're doing
- Pollies caught in tale spin
- What is Rudd's agenda?
- 2 After the Apology
- When words aren't enough
- Only the ignorant oppose an apology
- Sorry, but it's no time for minds to slam shut
- Life and death of a crisis
- Indigenous affairs
- Indigenous insiders chart an end to victimhood
- The lives sent down the drain
- 3 The Leadership Question
- The artless dodger
- Costello is standing by his voters
- The conflict business
- The opportunist
- The great Gillard experiment
- 4 The Politics of Coming Clean
- St Kevin smites global sinners
- The time for action is now
- Make or break
- Lethal emissions
- River will flow when the blather breaks
- Carbon warrior Rudd has found his version of Howard's way
- Politics trumps science in Garnaut Report
- Actions contradict polls
- 5 Political Legacies
- The inconvenient voice of politics
- A radical legacy
- Liberals mustn't let Rudd dictate history of reform
- Romanticising Australian conservatism
- Now there's nothing left
- It's just a jump to the left
- We are witnessing the last days of the nationals
- 6 How Divided Are We?
- Waking from the dream
- The moral equivalent of Anzac
- Art or porn is not the question
- Moonlight reflections
- Our very own police state
- 7 Weathering the Storm
- Central banker who goosed us all
- Out of their depths
- The treasurer who looked into the void
- Building a house of cards
- Realism and true grit will get us through this.
- Big bang reform v. Rudd, Mr 5 per cent
- Living up to its promise
- Eye of the storm
- 8 Hope and Strife
- Coup-coup land
- I hope, I hope, I hope
- Man with his work cut out
- Contributors
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780522860559
- 0522860559
- OCLC:
- 1089008378
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