Federal Election 2010
Suddenly, Last Winter: An Election Diary
$32.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Just as Bob Ellis's last book One Hundred Days of Summer, about Tony Abbott's ascension to the Liberal leadership, was ready to hit the shelves, the nation was stunned to witness Labor suddenly call time on Kevin Rudd's ... Buy or find out more →
Confessions of a Faceless Man: Inside Campaign 2010
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Paul Howes has been branded as one of Labor’s ‘faceless’ men, the union boss accused of removing Kevin Rudd from the highest office in the land when the polls started to wobble, the kingmaker (or should that be queenmake... Buy or find out more →
Axis Of Deceit: The Extraordinary Story of an Australian Whistleblower (Expanded Edition)
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia. Before he was a p... Buy or find out more →
Punch and Judy: The Double Disillusion Election Of 2010
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Mungo covers the closest election in Australian history …
In early 2010, there were few signs that the coming election would be so hotly contested. Tony Abbott had just become the third Opposition leader in as many yea... Buy or find out more →
The Party Thieves: The Real Story of the 2010 Election
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Barrie Cassidy picked a hell of an election to cover: changes of leaders on both sides of politics, Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, a hung parliament, a Green and independent ascendancy, and a country not knowing... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents?
The Hawke,... Buy or find out more →
Rudd’s Way: November 2007 – June 2010
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Based on an extensive series of detailed and off-the-record interviews, Nicholas Stuart — Kevin Rudd’s biographer and the author of an acclaimed study into the 2007 election — provides a critical examination of Labor in ... Buy or find out more →
Battlelines (Updated Edition)
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party.
'This is a genuine attempt to reassess Liberalism in contemporary Australia from the point of view of a vigorous, genuine social conservative w... Buy or find out more →
Shitstorm: Inside Labor’s Darkest Days
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
From respected journalists Lenore Taylor and David Uren comes the inside story of the Rudd government's darkest days in office. Its first term will be forever defined by the Global Financial Crisis, or—to use the Prime M... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey Of Kevin Rudd
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transforma... Buy or find out more →