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Australian Books

In the big chair

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation Paul Kelly

Melbourne University Press, pp.560, $50, ISBN: 9780522862102

My Story Julia Gillard

Random, pp.512, $50, ISBN: 9780857983909

Even those of us of a conservative bent hoped that the election of the Rudd government in 2007 would constitute a landmark, a welcome change, a new beginning. Looking back, it is hard to understand how everything went so terribly, terribly wrong.

Kelly, one of Australia’s most highly-regarded journalists and author of numerous books on politics, is a good person to explain it all.

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