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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... Well...
Fairfax columnist Andrew P Street details the litany of gaffes, blunders and questionable captain's calls that characterised the subsequent reign of the Abbott government, following the trail from bold promises to questionable realities, unlikely recoveries to inexplicable own goals and Malcolm Turnbull's assurances of support to the day he pushed the Captain off his bike once and for all. And all this comes with a colourful cast of supporting characters and dangerous loons that only a nation unfamiliar with the concept of below-the-line voting could elect. Here is a unique take on politics Australian style.
If Game of Thrones was a deeply irreverent book about politics, then the TV series would probably not rate nearly as well. It would, however, look something like this.
Contents
Introduction Australia, Stop Hitting Yourself1 The Gathering Storm2 Meet the Motley Crew3 Mandate, Mandate, Mandate!4 The Right to Be a Bigot5 For Those Who've Come Across the Seas...6 Classified On-Water Matters7 Putting the Coal into Coalition8 No Cuts to Health9 Not Your Average Jo(k)e10 Meet the New Senate!11 Someone's Getting a Shirtfrontin'12 We All Live in a Competitively Evaluated Submarine13 The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Spill Motion14 Good Government Starts Today15 I'm a Fixer16 Who's Afraid of Human Rights?17 The Hunt for Team Australia18 Everywhere with Helicopter19 Whither Labor?20 Abandon Ship!Epilogue Is This the Best We Can Do?Acknowledgement Or Who's to Blame for this Book
