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onLeft Guy A Life on the Left - Clyde Cameron by Bill Guy Used softback: .1999 edition in excellent condition Soft cover book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages Clyde cameron (1913-2008) The lives of a select number of Australians reflect and illuminate the life and times of the nation itself. This is the story of one such life. For over seventy years Clyde Cameron has been a member of the Australian Labor Party; for just as long he has been a trade unionist. The ALP and the union movement have shaped his life and in turn he has done much to shape their history. Twice he played a crucial role in determining the direction taken by the Lab click here..... Unmaking Paul Paperback USED Gough Kelly The Unmaking of Gough - by Paul Kelly Get other Books about Gough Whitlam click here Get other books about the 1975 dismissal click here Used paperback: .1976 edition in average condition fading to cover and spine taped spine. Pages are all good. 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 click here..... Cairns Man Paul Jim A Ormonde biography Foolish Passionate A Foolish Passionate Man - Paul Ormonde - a Biography of Jim Cairns Used paperback: .1981 edition good condition A biography of the man that became Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Treasurer About the subject Dr Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also a prominent economist and a prolific writer on economic and socia find out more..... Philip 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 more..... Freudenberg Grandeur Certain Politics Gough Graham Whitlam A Hardback A Certain grandeur - Gough Whitlam in Politics Used hardback: .1977 edition good condition - dust jacket torn Graham Freudenberg sympathetic story of Gough Whitlam's rise as leader of the Labor Party and fall as Prime Minister dismissed by the Governor -General Sir John Kerr About the Author Graham Freudenberg (born 1934) is an Australian author and political speechwriter who worked in the Australian Labor Party for over forty years beginning when he was appointed Arthur Calwell's press secretary in June 1961. He has written over a thousand speeches for several leaders of the Australian Labor Party at both the New South Wales state and federal level. These have included Arthur Calwell Gough extra info..... Gough Life with Gough - Barry Cohen Used hardback: .1996 edition in excellent condition (as new) hard cover book is in excellent condition good dustjacket- clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages dustjacket - boards in excellent condition Revered and reviled Gough Whitlam and his works have been part of public life for more than a generation. Here from friends foes and innocent bystanders is the best of the vast horde of Gough stories authentic and apocryphal infuriatingly high falutin and risque deliciously self-mocking and uproariously funny. With the help of some of our best cartoonists Life With Gough presents a larger-than-life Australian-a tall poppy of extra info..... Inside Killen (Hardback) Jim Killen Australian Killen - Inside Australian Politics - Jim Killen Used Hardback: .1985 edition Hardback book is in very good condition - clean book tight binding -slightly creased dust jacket - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages Jim Killens Biography covering from the 1950s to the 1980s including the Dimissal of the Whitlam Goverment About the subject Jim Killen (Sir James Killen) Sir Denis James "Jim" Killen AC KCMG (23 November 1925 Dalby Queensland Australia - 12 January 2007 Brisbane Queensland Australia) was an Australian politician. Killen was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland where he graduated in law. He served in the Royal Australian Air For click here..... Gough Hocking Gough - A Moment in History - by Jenny Hocking (Brand New and in stock) Paperback Edition - Volume 1 (at a later date there will be a volume 2) Get other Books about Gough Whitlam click here Get other books about the 1975 dismissal click here This moment was not his alone nor could it ever have come about without him . . . Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg touched him lightly on the shoulder saying 'It's been a long road Comrade but we're there' and walked out to meet the spotlight . . . Acclaimed biographer Professor Jenny Hocking's Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is the first contemporary and definitive biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister. From his childhood i click here..... edition Jim Quiet revised The Quiet Revolution - Jim Cairns - Revised 1975 edition Used paperback: .1975 edition good condition First published before the eve of the historic election of the Australian Labor Party in 1972 and revised in 1975. About the author Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also a prominent economist and a prolific writer on ec click here..... Jim Politics Killen Killen Killen - Inside Australian Politics - Jim Killen Used paperback: .1989 edition Paperback book is in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages Jim Killens Biography covering from the 1950s to the 1980s including the Dimissal of the Whitlam Goverment About the subject Jim Killen (Sir James Killen) Sir Denis James "Jim" Killen AC KCMG (23 November 1925 Dalby Queensland Australia - 12 January 2007 Brisbane Queensland Australia) was an Australian politician. Killen was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland where he graduated in law. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. After t more information..... Richard USED Hall Real Kerr John The Real John Kerr -Richard Hall Used paperback: .1978 edition in fair condition - book cover however is coming away from spine and spine is splitting. A rare book - Written by Richard Hall an ex advisor to the Whitlam Government this paints an unflattering portrait of John Kerr About Sir John Kerr Sir John Robert Kerr AK GCMG GCVO (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and 18th Governor-General of Australia dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975 marking the climax of one of the most significant constitutional crises in Australian history. Kerr's career Kerr was born in Balmain a working-class suburb of Sydn click here..... Junie Morosi Prejudice 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 click here..... Gough Certain Whitlam's A Politics revised Life edition Grandeur Freudenberg NEW 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 more..... Hayden An USED Hayden Autobiography Hayden - Bill Hayden An Autobiography Used hardback: .1996 edition in good condition Once described by Robert Menzies as "the boy delinquent from Queensland" Bill Hayden is widely considered today to be the best man never to have become prime minister of Australia. About Bill Hayden (from Wikipedia) William George Hayden AC (born 23 January 1933) Australian politician and 21st Governor-General of Australia was born in Brisbane Queensland the son of an American-born sailor of Irish descent. Bill Hayden was educated at Catholic schools and served in the Queensland Police Force from 1953 to 1961. He furthered his education through private study completing an economics degree at the Un more here..... Clyde Cameron Cameron The Cameron Diaries - Clyde Cameron Used hardback: .1990 edition in excellent condition hard cover book is in excellent condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages dustjacket - boards in excellent condition The years 1976 and 1977 following the dismissal were critical for the Australian Labor Party. Clyde Cameron no longer a Shadow Minister turned his energies to influencing the outcome of the leadership battle to oust Gough Whitlam and to completing his daily political diary which he had kept for 31 years. The Cameron Diaries cover every aspect of Australian political life reaching back to 1949. They contain some of the most astounding revelatio more details..... Road Cairns Jim Untried The Untried Road - Dr Jim Cairns Used paperback: .1990 edition average condition - ex library book This book is the outcome of Dr Jim Cairns years of experience and research in human behaviour and the condition of society and experience in the attempt to change society. About the Author Dr Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He w more information..... political Biography Whitlam Leader Gough A The Leader - A Political Biography of Gough Whitlam - James Walter Used hardback: .1980 edition Dust Jack hard back book is in excellent condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages The number of books written about the Whitlam Government and Whitlam himself have created a myth that feeds on itself. However James Walters approach in "the Leader" is quite unlike any previous commentator. It is in fact unique in Australian political science as the first sustained attempt to apply psychological theory to the career of an Australian Political leader About the subject Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (born 11 July 1916) known as Gough find out more..... The Quiet Revolution - Jim Cairns - Original 1972 edition Used paperback: .1972 edition average condition - coming away from spine First published before the eve of the historic election of the Australian Labor Party in 1972. About the subject Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also a prominent economist and a prolific wr click here..... Mini Dismissal The Dismissal - TV Mini - Series on DVD (Brand New and in stock) Region 4 DVD (Australia) - 2 Discs - 270 minutes The constituional crisis that eminated from the sacking of the Australian prime Minister Gough Whitlam on Nov 11 1975 still reverberates to this day. The 1983 mini-series from Kennedy Miller brings to life every extra-ordinary detail and still rates as one of the most watched television in Australia. The Dismissal features one of the best Australian casts ever assembled including Max Phipps John Mellion John Stanton Ruth Cracknell Bill Hunter John Hargraves Nancy Hayes Ed Devereaux Robyn Nevin and many more. About the Dismissal The crisis of 1975 might not have occurred had the S more here..... Gough - A Moment in History - by Jenny Hocking (Brand New and in stock) Volume 1 (at a later date there will be a volume 2) Get other Books about Gough Whitlam click here Get other books about the 1975 dismissal click here This moment was not his alone nor could it ever have come about without him . . . Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg touched him lightly on the shoulder saying 'It's been a long road Comrade but we're there' and walked out to meet the spotlight . . . Acclaimed biographer Professor Jenny Hocking's Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is the first contemporary and definitive biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister. From his childhood in the fledging city click here..... Whitlam USED Paperback 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 more information..... Life Johannes Adventures Petersen Hugh 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 more details..... Paperback Dismissal USED Paul in tie Kelly TV The Dismissal - by Paul Kelly Reprint of the Unmaking of Gough to tie in with 1983 TV mini-series Used paperback: .1983 edition in good condition 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 hi extra info..... Clem Llode Hit! King Clarke Andrew Kerr's King Hit - Clem Lloyd and Andrew Clark Used paperback: .1976 edition (Good condition ) 270 pages Journalists at the time - this is their interpretation of why Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam with a history of the Whitlam goverment A Rare Book About The Dismissal: The Dismissal The Opposition would not have been able to follow this course if the Senate elected in 1974 had remained intact. Although one of the two independents joined the Liberal Party the other Steele Hall was opposed to blocking supply and this would have been sufficient to prevent such a course being followed. The change in the composition of the Senate which made the constitutional crisis of 1975 pos more..... as Clyde told Cameron Daniel 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 extra info..... by Australian Robson Speeches Great Australian Speeches - edited by Pamela Robson (Brand New and in stock) Paperback Edition - This selection proves that stirring oratory is not simply the preserve of politicians and military figures. Here is bushranger Ned Kelly as his death sentence is passed a speech within a speech as he interrupts the address of Judge Barry with words of defiance. Also featured are: Nellie Melba’s farewell speech the irony of which neither speaker nor listeners appreciated at the time Miles Franklin’s tribute to Henry Lawson ‘who gave us this kingdom as our own’ David Malouf’s ‘An experiment in human engineering’ speech. Iconic political speeches include Gov extra info..... Oil Cairns Jim Oil in Troubled Waters - Jim Cairns Used paperback: .1976 edition good condition - pages yellowed due to age Former Deputy Prime Minister Treasurer and Minister int he Australia Labor Government analyses the local and international forces that were mobilised to engineer the dimissal of the Government. Jim Cairns view of the dismissal. About the Author Dr Jim Cairns James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 - 12 October 2003) Australian politician was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War for his affair with Junie Mo more details..... Clyde Cameron USED Bill Life Guy by A Life on the Left - Clyde Cameron by Bill Guy Used softback: .1999 edition in average condition (ex-library book) The lives of a select number of Australians reflect and illuminate the life and times of the nation itself. This is the story of one such life. For over seventy years Clyde Cameron has been a member of the Australian Labor Party; for just as long he has been a trade unionist. The ALP and the union movement have shaped his life and in turn he has done much to shape their history. Twice he played a crucial role in determining the direction taken by the Labor Party. Cameron was born on the eve of World War U; he began work in the shearing sheds on the eve of the Great Depression; h click here..... Gough Whitlam Whitlam The Whitlam Government 1972 - 1975 - Gough Whitlam Used paperback: .1985 edition paperback in good condition - clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages From the Dust Jacket - "A frank and expansive book by a literate and visionary statesman is a rarity. The Whitlam Government is such a rarity. "In this book Gough Whitlam not only draws a vivid portrait of three memorable years in Australia's history. He paints a broad and illuminating canvas of Australia as it was as it has become and as yet it might be. Whitlam brought Labor to power on 2 December 1972 after twenty-three years in the political wilderness with a commitment to change and reform s find out more..... Straight Tom Straight Left - Tom Uren Used hardback: .1994 edition ex library book (plastic cover) in good condition hard cover book is in good dustjacket- clean book tight binding - - no other marks tears - no loose or missing pages dustjacket - minor scuffing to board ends Straight Left is above all things the story of a classic Australian who has never lost touch with ordinary people and has remained true to his ideals... About Tom Uren Thomas Uren AO (born 28 May 1921) Australian politician was a minister in the Whitlam and Hawke Australian Labor Party governments. He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement in Australia and in particular worked to preserve the heritage of inner Sydney extra info.....

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