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

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

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780522867817
Author: Paul Kelly
Edition: Revised Edition
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 584 pages
Period: 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Featuring a new introduction in response to Julia Gillard's memoir.

Drawing on more than sixty on-the-record interviews with all the major players, Triumph and Demise is full of remarkable disclosures. It is the inside account of the Labor Government's hopes, achievements and bitter failures from 2007 to 2013.

Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard came together to defeat John Howard, formed a brilliant partnership and raised the nation's hopes. Yet they fell into tension and then hostility under the pressures of politics and policy.

Veteran journalist Paul Kelly probes the dynamics of the Rudd-Gillard partnership and dissects what tore them apart. He tells the full story of Julia Gillard's tragedy as our first female prime minister - her character, Rudd's destabilisation, the carbon tax saga and how Gillard was finally pulled down on the eve of the 2013 election.

Kelly documents the most misunderstood event in these years - the rise of Tony Abbott and the reason for his success. Abbott's performance denied Rudd and Gillard the chance to recover. Labor misjudged Abbott and paid the price.

Kelly writes with a keen eye and fearless determination. His central theme is that Australian politics has entered a crisis of the system that, unless corrected, will diminish the lives of all Australians. (back cover)

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