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Born: Established: 2002 Kenthurst, Baulkham Hills area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
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1 1 y separately published work icon Whitlam Brian Carroll , Kenthurst : Rosenberg , 2011 Z1778931 2011 single work biography 'Governor-General Sir John Kerr's dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the born-to-rule Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history.

Whitlam himself was certainly one of the most momentous figures in that history. Born into a privileged life that should have seen him on side with the born-to-rule gang, he took the other fork, joined the Australian Labor Party, rose to be its Parliamentary leader, took it into power after twenty-three years in the wilderness, then led it right back there.

As Malcolm Fraser might have said, all that wasn't meant to be easy, and Whitlam never found it so. Branded as a silver tail by the rough and ready men of Labor, he had to fight them all the way to convince them that Labor was something more than just the political arm of the union movement, and that principle without power was an exercise in futility.

He overcame all their resistance and in 1972 led them triumphantly into the Government benches. Perhaps a little too triumphantly. The pace of change scared too many people. And sudden changes in the world economic environment threw down challenges he just could not overcome.

Nor could he overcome the local political challenges thrown down by the conservative forces, once they had recovered from the shock of the 1972 election result. He held them at bay when they forced him to the electors eighteen months ahead of time in mid-1974. But he and his colleagues seemed determined to keep providing him with the ammunition they needed to shoot him down, and on 11 November 1975, they did.

This book tells it all in highly readable style. It tries to recapture some of the excitement of the times.' (Source: Publisher's website)
1 4 y separately published work icon Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys Keith Vincent Smith , Dural : Rosenberg , 2010 Z1753046 2010 single work biography

'The first sailing ships that entered the world of the Indigenous people of Botany Bay and Port Jackson caused fear and wonder. '

'They thought they were giant birds, monsters, or floating islands and that the figures climbing the masts were devils or possums.'

'This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia’s early maritime history. Its focus is the Indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world in the period 1790-1850...' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
1 1 y separately published work icon Vintage Keating Paul Keating , Brian Carroll (editor), Dural : Rosenberg , 2010 Z1715135 2010 selected work prose

'So far, Paul Keating is the only Australian Prime Minister to provide star material for a musical comedy. Who can imagine any of the others doing that?

'Even before he became Prime Minister, Keating had made a name for himself as someone who could dominate Parliament with his rapid and cutting ripostes. By the time he did reach the top office, there were already book length collections of his insults and invective. Even the Liberal Party, apparently, was keeping a list. Nobody was safe, not even people on his own side of politics. Ask 'Old Silver'. In this book, Brian Carroll has found and arranged enough of Keating's utterances to keep you chuckling (or clucking your tongue) for a long time.

'The book begins with a short biography of Keating, just to put it all in context. Then there's a long parade of his wit, leavened with a certain amount of his wisdom, of which there was plenty, but which too often tends to be overlooked. Being rejected by the electors did not stop him, and the book contains examples of his wit and wisdom right up to the end of 2009. As one observer put it, he brought a breath of fresh air to the wasteland of weasel words we endure.

'And for those who have not seen Keating! The Musical, and even for those who have, there's a chapter on how the show came to be and what it's all about.' (From the publisher's website.)
2 1 y separately published work icon Crusading at Anzac Anno Domini 1915 Ellis Silas , London : British Australasian , 1916 Z1686931 1916 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon The Man Who Stole the Cyprus : A True Story of Escape. Warwick Hirst , Kenthurst : Rosenberg , 2008 12791504 2008 single work biography

'On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life. Eight years earlier he had stowed away on a ship to England only to be eventually arrested and sent to Hobart for the second time. After marooning the crew, military guard and passengers on the desolate shore, Swallow skillfully sailed the brig across the Pacific to Tahiti then back to the Tongan Islands and on to Japan before finally scuttling her off the Chinese coast.
This epic of endurance was matched by the adventures of the people left behind in Recherche Bay. They were saved from starvation, not by the vacillating officers, but by an enterprising little cockney convict named John Pobjoy, who one year later would do his best to betray Swallow and his companions.
Five of the Cyprus convicts, including Swallow, eventually made their way to London where they were recognized and put on trial for piracy at the Old Bailey. The chief witness against them was Pobjoy, who had turned up in England after receiving a pardon for his efforts in rescuing the castaways.
Warwick Hirst has written an account of a rogue whose undoubted leadership, determination and resourcefulness might, in different circumstances, have led him to a far more favourable fate.' (Publication Summary)
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