My Life and Harry by Zara Holt used hardback: .1968 edition - good condition - dustjacket has tear An Autobiography of Zara Holt and life with her husband PM Harold Holt About Zara Holt Dame Zara Bate DBE (March 10 1909 - June 14 1989) was an Australian fashion designer and wife (later widow) of Prime Minister Harold Holt. Born Zara Kate Dickins in Kew Victoria Bate was educated at Ruyton Girls' School and Toorak College. In 1925 aged 16 she established her first dress shop in Little Collins Street. With a friend she later opened a salon called Magg in Toorak Village. She won the 1961 Australian Gown of the Year award. Her first husband was Colonel James Fell by whom she had three sons Nicho more.....

Joh - Hugh Lunn The Life and Political Adventures of Joh Bjelke-Petersen used hardback: .1978 edition - in very good condition The Unauthorised Biography of Joh Bjelke-Petersen Other Books on Joh Bjelke-Petersen About Joh Bjelke-Petersen Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen KCMG (13 January 1911 – 23 April 2005) New Zealand-born Australian politician was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of the state of Queensland. He held office from 1968 to 1987 a period that saw considerable economic development in the state. His uncompromising conservatism (including his role within the downfall of the Whitlam federal government) his political longevity and his leadership of a g extra info.....

Felicia - Don Dunstan Used hardback: .1981 edition hard back good condition - clean book tight binding - minor scuffing to boards at corners - no other marks tears - loose or missing pages Macmillan 1981 1981 328 pp. indexed 8 pp black and white photographs photographic illustrated dust wrapper. The memoirs of a onr of the most colourful and controversial figures in Australias Political History. A Labor party politician whose charisma and sense of social justice enabled him to institute changes in South Australia that were soon echoed elsewhere in Australia. About the Author Don Dunstan Donald Allan Dunstan was born in Suva Fiji on 21 September 1926. After early schooling he transferred to S click here.....

All too Human - George Stephanopoulos Used hardback: .1999 edition ex library book - reasonable condition "So this is it. This is how the big guys talk to each other. I'd been behind my share of closed doors on Capitol Hill but this was different -- more self-conscious almost cinematic as if everyone was aware of playing a part in a drama that was being written as they spoke. This was the classic smoke-filled room minus the smoke. I watched and listened and tried to look cool too dumbstruck to say a sensible word and half-convinced that somebody would look up any minute and say 'Hey what are you doing here?" For four years in the White House and one year of campaigning before that George Ste more.....

Sex Prejudice and Politics - Junie Morosi Used paperback: .1975 edition good condition A biography of Junie Morosi and her view of the "Morosi affair" that resulted in the sacking of Jim Cairns as treasurer. About the author Junie Morosi Junie Morosi (born 26 July 1933) is an Australian businesswoman who became a public figure in the 1970s through her relationship with Dr Jim Cairns Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam Labor government. Morosi's appointment as Cairns's Principal Private Secretary and the nature of her relationship with him aroused intense media interest and the affair contributed to Cairns's eventual dismissal from office and the fall of the government. Early life find out more.....

The Confessions of Clyde Cameron 1913-1990 - as told to Daniel Connell Used hardback: .1990 edition in excellent condition hard cover book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages dustjacket - boards in excellent condition The Confessions of Clyde Cameron spans nearly eight decades of Australian social and political history. Whether Clyde Cameron is discussing his mother the Aboriginal Camerons getting paid for shearing his first sheep even though it died in his hands working the sheds along the river Darling as a union official corruption in the AWU his admiration for South Australian Liberal Premier Tom Playford Don Dunstan spurni more.....

Lynched - Brian Buckley - The Life of Phillip Lynch used paperback: .1991 edition - in good condition The Biography of Phillip Lynch one of the architects of "The Dismissal" About Philip Lynch Sir Phillip Reginald Lynch KCMG (27 July 1933 - June 19 1984) was an Australian Liberal politician. Lynch held the House of Representatives seat of Flinders from 1966 to 1982. Between 1968 and 1972 he served variously as Minister for the Army Minister for Immigration and Minister for Labour and National Service under Prime Ministers John Gorton and William McMahon. In opposition from 1972 to 1975 he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. He was also the Deputy Leader of the Opposition as the extra info.....

The Truth of the Matter - by Gough Whitlam Used paperback: .1979 edition (Good Condition) Get other books by and about Gough Whitlam click here On Remembrance Day 1975 the Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr sacked the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict as Whitlam's reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable and increasingly bitter conservative opposition. The focus of the Opposition's scheming was the Senate where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a political crisis. Whitlam famous for his 'crash through or crash' style refused to compromise with his extra info.....

The Boy from Boree Creek - The Tim Fischer Story - Peter Rees Used hardback: .2001 edition in good condition - no dust jacket This is the story of Tim Fischer's journey from a country town in far southwest NSW to the centre of political power. It tells of an individual quietly determined to push past barriers and who succeeded where very few expected him to; of someone prepared to be different and to make that difference part of a distinctive personal style. Here too is the very personal story of a man who came to acknowledge the conflict between the demands of a high-profile public life and the needs of a family life and made the toughest political decision of his career - to step down as D more details.....

A Certain grandeur - Gough Whitlam's Life in Politics by Graham Freudenberg Brand New Paperback : .revised edition published 2009. Get other Books about Gough Whitlam click here Get other books about the 1975 dismissal click here Graham Freudenberg's inside account of Gough Whitlam's political rise and fall is one of the great classics of Australian political writing. From his position as Gough's speechwriter and confidant just out of the spotlight of history Freudenberg was an eyewitness to Gough's spectacular rise and fall which he documents with compelling drama. But A Certain Grandeur's most significant achievement is to capture so vividly the character of the man – dictatorial pet extra info.....