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Ramsey Alan |
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The way they were : the view from the hill of the 25 years that remade Australia / / Alan Ramsey ; with illustrations by Ward O'Neill, Geoff Prior and Michael Mucci |
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Sydney, NSW : , : NewSouth, , 2011 |
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1 online resource (576 p.) |
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Political parties - Australia - History - 20th century |
Political parties - Australia - History - 21st century |
Journalism - Australia |
Electronic books. |
Australia Politics and government 2001- |
Australia Politics and government 1990-2001 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1 PEOPLE; Chapter 2 THE WORM TURNS; Chapter 3 MORE PEOPLE; Chapter 4 CURSE THE PRESS; Chapter 5 EIGHT CENTS A DAY; Chapter 6 HOW THE EAST WAS LOST; Chapter 7 HOW THE WEST WAS WON; Chapter 8 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; Chapter 9 THE DEEP NORTH; Chapter 10 THE CLATTER OF POLITICS; Chapter 11 THE KEATING FACTOR; Chapter 12 A ONCE GREAT PARTY; Chapter 13 EVEN MORE PEOPLE; Chapter 14 CITIZEN MURDOCH; Chapter 15 SLASH AND BURN; Chapter 16 A LONG AND WINDING ROAD; Chapter 17 WHATARE WE?; Chapter 18 ANIMAL ACTS; Chapter 19 GENTLE ON OUR MIND |
Chapter 20 WHEN THE BUGLE SOUNDSChapter 21 KOKODA; Chapter 22 100,000 WAR DEAD; Chapter 23 REMEMBRANCE; Chapter 24 DEPARTURES; INDEX |
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For many years reading Alan Ramsey's vitriolic, confronting but always engaging and insightful pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings for many Australians. He may have disappeared from our Saturday papers but he certainly hasn't |
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been forgotten- by those who applauded his opinions, those he enraged, and by the politicians he wrote about. From mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to our national parliament and politicians than Alan Ramsey. From the granite quarry of national politics in Canberra, Ramsey wrote 2273 columns for the Sydney |
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