Download or read book Reflections on Recollections of a Bleeding Heart written by Don Watson and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years on, award-winning writer Don Watson reflects on Paul Keating's response to Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. Ranging across the contract, roles and expectations of writing speeches for the orator to own; the bonds and boundaries of speechwriter and maker; how politics and government work in this country; and the freedoms and responsibilities of the biographer, Don Watson gives us much to consider. Including the role of the Keating government in the demise of big-picture politics and the move to poll-driven caution, the transition from society to economy and the debasement of political debate. Including a bonus free chapter from Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, anniversary edition.
Download or read book The Australian Study of Politics written by R. Rhodes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII, also exploring the historical roots of each major subfield.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership written by R. A. W. Rhodes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psychologists, Sovietologists, political anthropologists, and by scholars in comparative and development studies from the 1940s to the 1970s. Thereafter, the field lost its way with the rise of structuralism, neo-institutionalism, and rational choice approaches to the study of politics, government, and governance. Recently, however, students of politics have returned to studying the role of individual leaders and the exercise of leadership to explain political outcomes. The list of topics is nigh endless: elections, conflict management, public policy, government popularity, development, governance networks, and regional integration. In the media age, leaders are presented and stage-managed--spun--DDLas the solution to almost every social problem. Through the mass media and the Internet, citizens and professional observers follow the rise, impact, and fall of senior political officeholders at closer quarters than ever before. This Handbook encapsulates the resurgence by asking, where are we today? It orders the multidisciplinary field by identifying the distinct and distinctive contributions of the disciplines. It meets the urgent need to take stock. It brings together scholars from around the world, encouraging a comparative perspective, to provide a comprehensive coverage of all the major disciplines, methods, and regions. It showcases both the normative and empirical traditions in political leadership studies, and juxtaposes behavioural, institutional, and interpretive approaches. It covers formal, office-based as well as informal, emergent political leadership, and in both democratic and undemocratic polities.
Download or read book Recollections of a Bleeding Heart written by Don Watson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had never become Prime Minister Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's working class and a defining element of the head-kicking Labor right who loved Paris, Mahler and Second Empire clocks. Paul Keating did become Prime Minister. In December 1991 he wrested it from Bob Hawke and the bruises from that struggle were part of the baggage he brought to the job: the other parts included the worst recession in 60 years and an electorate determined to make him pay for it. Keating defied the odds and won the 1993 election, and in his four years as Prime Minister set Australia on a new course - towards engagement with Asia, a republic, reconciliation, a social democracy built on a modern export-based economy and sophisticated public systems of education and training, health and social security. Widely regarded as a quintessential economic rationalist, Keating's record clearly shows that his vision was infinitely broader and more complex. Don Watson was employed as Keating's speechwriter. Though a 'bleeding heart' liberal trained in history rather than economics, he became an advisor and friend to Keating. RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART - based on notes Watson kept through the four turbulent and exhausting years of Keating's Prime Ministership - is a frank, sympathetic and engrossing portrait of this brilliant and perplexing man, and a unique reflection on modern politics. Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson Sample Chapter(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();
Download or read book Essays Thoughts and Reflections and Sermons on Various Subjects written by Henry WOODWARD (Rector of Fethard.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Recollections of Lord Byron New edition written by Countess Teresa GUICCIOLI (afterwards ROUILLÉ DE BOISSY (Teresa) Marchioness.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Recollections of Lord Byron written by Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Recollections of Lord Byron written by Teresa contessa di Guiccioli and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800 – 1873) was the lover and companion of Lord Byron in times he was living in Ravenna, Italy, and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan. This book is a biographical account of Lord Byron's Life in Italy and their relationships. Later the author herself became a fictional character. Alexandre Dumas included her as a minor personage in his novel The Count of Monte Cristo using the disguised name.
Download or read book My Recollections of Lord Byron and Those of Eye witnesses of His Life written by Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History Wars written by Doug Munro and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘In 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volumes of Clark’s epic A History of Australia. In applying what he called “an overdue axe to a tall poppy”, Ryan lambasted the History as “an imposition on Australian credulity” and declared its author a fraud, both as a historian and a person. This unprecedented public assault by a publisher on his best-selling author was a sensation at the time and remains lodged in the public memory. In History Wars, Doug Munro forensically examines the right and wrongs of Ryan’s allegations, concluding that Clark was more sinned against than sinning and that Ryan repeatedly misrepresented the situation. More than just telling a story, Munro places the Ryan-Clark controversy within the context of Australia’s History Wars. This book is an illuminating saga of that ongoing contest.’ — James Curran, University of Sydney ‘The Ryan-Clark controversy … speaks to the place of Manning Clark in Australia’s national imagination. Had Ryan taken his axe to another historian, it’s unlikely that we would be still talking about it 30 years later. But Clark was the author and keeper of Australia’s national story, however imperfect his scholarship and however blinkered that story. Few, if any, historians in the Anglo-American world have occupied the space that Clark occupied by dint of will, force of personality, and felicity of pen.’ — Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick
Download or read book Garden of Thoughts written by Sakina Masani, Alka Tandon & Ankita Hundekar and published by INK FREEDOM PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book "GARDEN OF THOUGHTS" is a collection of poems by a team of authors, some of them are best writers of country. The Anthology "Garden of thoughts" is an anthology of budding Indian poets/writer across the country. This anthology is an attempt to provide an open platform to all writers across the country to get their writings to reach millions of readers. This book is comical with its distinctive records of write-ups as it consists of some exquisite write-ups reckon in nearly all the genres that leads to make a complete package as it can be your best relief while have stress or negative thoughts. The words penned here are woven to make each one of our lives tranquil. We all go through different types of emotions hence book consist of distinct topics. Our aim is to spread positivity and share ounce of love to our readers. All the co-authors have put in their best to make the content error free.
Download or read book Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable written by Judith Brett and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the governmeant of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments have always done: it has made its stand firmly at the centre and presented itself as the true guardian of the national interest. In doing this, John Howard has taken over the national traditions of the Australian Legend that Labor once considered its own. Brett offers a lucid short history of the Liberals as well as an original account of the Prime Minister, arguing that, above all, he is a man obsessed with the fight against Labor. She explores both his inventiveness in practising the politics of unity and his great ruthlessness in practising the politics of division. She incorporates fascinating interview material with Liberal voters, shedding light on some of the different ways in which the Liberals appeal as the natural party of government. Full of provocative ideas, Relaxed and Comfortable will change the way Australians see the last decade of national politics. ‘Where Keating spoke to the nation, Howard spoke from it - straight from the heart of its shared beliefs and commonsense understandings of itself.’ —Judith Brett, Relaxed and Comfortable ‘Judith Brett's elegent account of the Liberal Party's Australia rightly emphasises older nationalist and individualist themes that John Howard has exploited.’ —Ian Marsh ‘Judith Brett's essay is important because it makes no attempt to lionise or demonise John Howard. It seeks merely to examine the reasons for his phenomenal run and does so with great precision.’ —Graham Richardson ‘Brett's is a sober analysis and not one of moral outrage. The essay represents a challenge to the leftist sense that under Howard, as Chicken Licken said, 'The sky is falling!’ —David Corlett ‘Judith Brett has once more shown herself to be one of the foremost commentators on the Liberal Party's political role. It is really the fact that her essay is so good that has prompted my response.’ —David Kemp Judith Brett is professor of politics at La Trobe University and one of Australia’s leading political thinkers. She is a former editor of Meanjin and columnist for the Age. She is the author of the award-winning Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (2003), which was shortlisted for the Queensland premier’s prize for non-fiction.
Download or read book Proverbial Philosophy a Book of Thoughts and Arguments Originally Treated written by Martin Farquhar Tupper and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Men have said about Woman A collection of choice thoughts and sentences Compiled and analytically arranged by H Southgate With illustrations by J D Watson written by Henry SOUTHGATE and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gatekeepers written by R.A.W. Rhodes and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you want to be Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister? The Gatekeepers provides the key lessons to equip you for the job. Australian prime ministers need help and it is their chief of staff who supports the person and the office, steering the prime minister through the challenges and landmines of political leadership. It is about making sure the urgent doesn't crowd out the important. It comes down to finely tuned coordination. It is about winning support in cabinet, caucus and country. The Gatekeepers offers unparalleled insights into how things really work at the centre of Australia's governing networks from those who have worked as chiefs of staff under prime ministers from Fraser to Rudd. It identifies eight key lessons for success as the PM's gatekeeper and shock absorber. It reveals what to do, what not to do, how to do it and how not to do it.
Download or read book Changing States Changing Nations written by Andrew McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in that they had the potential to change the way Britons understood the national identity of the UK. The book illuminates the ambitions of the key players in Whitehall and Westminster and is enriched through a study of comparable constitutional reforms in Canada and Australia: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms pioneered by Pierre Trudeau and the attempt by Paul Keating to make Australia a Republic. The Canadian and Australian chapters are a contribution to the political history of those nations and a device for understanding the changes in Britain. The author is an expert in the use of Freedom of Information and was a senior policy maker in Whitehall working primarily on constitutional reform. Readers will benefit from the author's unrivalled access to interviewees and documentary sources in the three countries covered in the book.
