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Australian Books

Sour mixture

12 October 2013

9:00 AM

12 October 2013

9:00 AM

The Mad Marathon Mungo MacCallum

Black Inc, pp.288, $29.99, ISBN: 978186356185

This book purports to be the story of the 2013 election. It is not clear why it makes that claim, since less than a quarter of the book deals with the campaign. One might argue that the campaign really started when Julia Gillard announced the 14 September date, or even that the major participants had been ‘campaigning’ since the 2010 election.

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