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“david penberthy”

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  • Not All Black and White

    Scott Hodges' Life in Football and How It Almost Ended

    by David Penberthy ...
    On paper Scotty Hodges had it all.In a football career almost without peer, Scott was drafted as a teenager to represent the team he loved, Port Adelaide, and would go on to win a staggering eight premierships.He would break the State’s all-time goal-kicking record, win its highest honour, the Magarey Medal, and be headhunted as the star forward in the inaugural Adelaide Crows AFL team. He had a ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Kane Cornes

    by Kane Cornes, David Penberthy ...
    Premiership player. Four-time club champion. Two-time All Australian. 300-game veteran of the AFL.The Kane Cornes story is the story of the modern Port Adelaide Football Club. It is a story of triumph, tragedy and renewal. It is an intensely personal and honest story of a young man born into football royalty, who as the son of Glenelg and Crows legend Graham Cornes was hard-wired to detest the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Drawing the Line: A Year in Cartoons

    Edited by Paul Colgan, David Penberthy ...
    All the things which made you laugh, cry and wonder, from the year gone byLook back on the year that was through this showcase of the year's best cartoons. Edited by Paul Colgan and David Penberthy of the Punch, this collection features some of the cleverest commentators in the media, including Bill Leak, Warren Brown, Peter Nicholson, Mark Knight and Jon Kudelka. Whether it's the antics of the ... Read more

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  • Stalking of Julia Gillard

    How the media and Team Rudd brought down the prime minister

    by Kerry-Anne Walsh ...
    'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.' Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 she did so with the goodwill of the majority of her party and a fawning Canberra press gallery. The man she had supplanted, Kevin Rudd, led an isolated band of angry Labor voices at this ... Read more

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  • Bulldozed

    Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 3 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE 2023 ABIA GENERAL NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie OakesBetween 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession ... Read more

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  • The Australian Moment

    How we were made for these times

    by George Megalogenis ...
    'Likely to become the essential short work on modern Australia' Don Watson'Megalogenis is Australia's best explainer … A brilliant read' Annabel CrabbWinner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely

    Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Albanese

    by Mungo MacCallum ...
    From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott

    by Andrew P Street ...
    An irreverent take on the political life and times of Australia's twenty eighth prime minister, detailing a litany of questionable calls, miraculous blunders, and inexplicable mistakes.In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd years. But then... ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Australia

    How a great nation lost its way

    by Nick Bryant ...
    'A terrific account of a great nation cursed by ordinary leaders' - George Megalogenis'There's sharpness and insight in Bryant's book' - Sydney Morning HeraldNever before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It’s the planet’s great lifestyle superpower. But its politics have never been so brutal, ... Read more

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  • Rudd, Gillard and Beyond: Penguin Special

    Penguin Special

    by Troy Bramston ...
    The controversial legacy of the Rudd-Gillard governments, along with Labor's 2013 election defeat, looms large over the party. Labor risks years in the political wilderness unless it can reinvent itself. What did it get right, where did it go wrong, and how can it regain the trust of voters?Troy Bramston uses new in-depth interviews with Kevin Rudd and Bill Shorten, the advice of Gough Whitlam, ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal

    The Making of Tony Abbott

    by David Marr ...
    Series Book 47 - Quarterly Essay
    Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott was already a brutally effective politician. He later led the way in defeating the republic and ... Read more

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