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Gravity : inside the PM's office during her last year and final days / Mary Delahunty.

By: Publisher: Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxv, 242 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781742707631
Other title:
  • Gravity
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 324.29407 23
Contents:
Prologue : last orders -- Ch. 1. Grief and politics -- Ch. 2. Liars, witches, trolls -- Ch. 3. Summer scorecard -- Ch. 4. 'Politics is a furnace' -- Ch. 5. Mad March -- Ch. 6. Going for Gonski -- Ch. 7. ' The day that never ends' -- Ch. 8. Resilience -- Ch. 9. Budget and tears -- Ch. 10. A funeral, a ball, a beheading -- Ch. 11. The day after.
Summary: Our first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard came to power suddenly in a coup that perplexed the nation. She hurried to an election and was chained to a hung parliament. She out-negotiated Tony Abbott and formed a minority government, but the deepest threat was from within: the man she beat for the top job would relentlessly undermine her for three torturous years. In this exclusive insider account, award-winning journalist Mary Delahunty teases out the personal from the political as she asks why we never got to know this Prime Minister. She reveals for the first time Gillard's reflections on why she struggled at the top, as well as the thoughts of other key players in this brutal saga. Delahunty had unparallelled access to the PM throughout her final year, and was the only journalist to speak to Gillard on that fatal June day. Gravity takes readers inside Gillard's private office to detail the drama - exposing the cost of defeat, and capturing just how fast power drains away.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 324.29407 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 90248

Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue : last orders -- Ch. 1. Grief and politics -- Ch. 2. Liars, witches, trolls -- Ch. 3. Summer scorecard -- Ch. 4. 'Politics is a furnace' -- Ch. 5. Mad March -- Ch. 6. Going for Gonski -- Ch. 7. ' The day that never ends' -- Ch. 8. Resilience -- Ch. 9. Budget and tears -- Ch. 10. A funeral, a ball, a beheading -- Ch. 11. The day after.

Our first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard came to power suddenly in a coup that perplexed the nation. She hurried to an election and was chained to a hung parliament. She out-negotiated Tony Abbott and formed a minority government, but the deepest threat was from within: the man she beat for the top job would relentlessly undermine her for three torturous years. In this exclusive insider account, award-winning journalist Mary Delahunty teases out the personal from the political as she asks why we never got to know this Prime Minister. She reveals for the first time Gillard's reflections on why she struggled at the top, as well as the thoughts of other key players in this brutal saga. Delahunty had unparallelled access to the PM throughout her final year, and was the only journalist to speak to Gillard on that fatal June day. Gravity takes readers inside Gillard's private office to detail the drama - exposing the cost of defeat, and capturing just how fast power drains away.

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