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Tales from the political trenches / Maxine McKew.

By: Publisher: Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Press, 2012Description: vi, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780522862218 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 324.2092
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.It's a Contest of Ideas -- 2.It's All Political... -- 3.Don't Think You Can Beat a Prime Minister -- 4.Great Expectations -- 5.The Grand, the Bad and Everything In Between -- 6.Not Just Child's Play -- 7.Pennies from Kevin -- 8.Ambush -- 9.The `Traditional Owners' Fight Back -- 10.Back to Bennelong -- 11.A Torrent of Tears.
Summary: At the 2007 federal election former journalist Maxine McKew won a spectacular victory against John Howard and wrote herself into Australian political history as only the second candidate to have ever defeated a sitting prime minister in his constituency seat.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 324.2092 MCK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67614

Special collection: Parliamentary Authors.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250)

Machine generated contents note: 1.It's a Contest of Ideas -- 2.It's All Political... -- 3.Don't Think You Can Beat a Prime Minister -- 4.Great Expectations -- 5.The Grand, the Bad and Everything In Between -- 6.Not Just Child's Play -- 7.Pennies from Kevin -- 8.Ambush -- 9.The `Traditional Owners' Fight Back -- 10.Back to Bennelong -- 11.A Torrent of Tears.

At the 2007 federal election former journalist Maxine McKew won a spectacular victory against John Howard and wrote herself into Australian political history as only the second candidate to have ever defeated a sitting prime minister in his constituency seat.

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