- Bib ID:
- 3916776
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Macklin, Robert, 1941-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Available for distribution in: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND.
- Description:
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- Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Books Australia, 2007
- vi, 253 p., [8] p. of plates, : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780670071357
- Summary:
-
Kevin Rudd's election as Federal Leader of the ALP in December 2006 generated plenty of media attention. He has been hailed as a visionary and many believe he is a genuine prospect to become the first Labor Prime Minister since Paul Keating.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: CHAPTER ONE
- "You could hear a snap.' 1
- CHAPTER TWO
- "I thought it a very good chance that I would lose.' 14
- CHAPTER THREE
- 'They must answer with their lives. 21
- CHAPTER FOUR
- I didn't know how to walk.' 33
- CHAPTER FIVE
- "There was only one mongrel little tree.' 42
- CHAPTER SIX
- 'It doesn't get much crooker than this.' 52
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- "I got really determined.' 58
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- 'What a marvellously snotty thing to say.' 64
- CHAPTER NINE
- 'I used to clean his loo all the time.' 74
- CHAPTER TEN
- 'You know something about China? Ah, Sweden's the place for you.' 82
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- 'I wanted to see if I had it within me to go into politics myself.' 98
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- That was what brought me across the line.' 108
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- "You get bred hard.' 15
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- Politics is about power 125
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- The guy's supremely intelligent and I find that very comforting.' 133
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- ".finishing this thing as I started it - basic, austere, very common.' 142
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- The Commissioner has the power to make a finding of fact.' 149
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- 'Sorry, Kim, I should have let him go!' 157
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer is, without doubt, the man I admire most
- in the history of the twentieth century' 163
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- 'There's a fork in the road.' 173
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- "Anyone who deals with Mr Brian Burke is morally and politically
- compromised.' 181
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- 'My name is Kevin; I'm from Queensland; and I'm here to help.' 190
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- "They had the dream too. They were looking for somewhere to live it.' 198
- Afterword 208
- Appendix I The Maiden Speech 212
- Appendix II 'Faith in Politics' by Kevin Rudd 223
- Appendix III The Shadow Ministry 241
- Photographic Sources 245.
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- Also Titled:
- Kevin Rudd
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