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Australian Books

Bedwetter’s lament

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble Christopher Pyne

Hachette Australia, pp.321, $34.99

The trouble with political memoirs is that it’s very hard to get the balance right between the book-length version of an after-dinner speech, with its jokes and stories; and an elaborate re-telling of recent history, invariably told to make a hero of the author. Christopher Pyne’s account of his part in the post-Howard years occasionally prompts a chuckle and sometimes has interesting things to say.

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Ross Fitzgerald is Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at Griffith University. His most recent books are a sexual/political satire, The Dizzying Heights, co-authored with Ian McFadyen; and a memoir, Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey, both published by Hybrid in Melbourne

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