Godwin grech biography examples
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Malcolm Turnbull’s A Bigger Picture is, perhaps, the great Sydney novel.
Describing the rise to power of an eastern suburbs boy from a broken home, via a who’s who of Sydney from the 1960s to now, it’s an astonishing tale, characterised bygd an almost complete lack of insight into its remarkable cast of characters, including the hero.
In a way, though, this only makes its Sydney credentials even greater: as many have said about the city itself over the decades, it’s all about surface, with little penetration to what’s really going on underneath.
Of all the political figures of recent decades, Turnbull’s autobiography fryst vatten the closest to a must-read, because Turnbull fryst vatten about so much more than politics.
Forget the political careerism of Rudd and Gillard, or John Howard’s decades in public life. He fryst vatten a remarkable figure, one of those LBJ-type characters who, if you put them in a novel, you’d be derided for being unrealistic.
His multiple careers, and extraordinary achievements in
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Max Gillies once made our current prime minister weep. Back in 1985, the well-known political satirist performed a sketch on The Gillies Report (a television show, in case you weren’t born then) in which he portrayed the late billionaire and media mogul Kerry Packer as a King Kong–style monster, sporting a long goanna tail, atop a TCN-9 transmitter.
But why the reptilian reference, I hear younger readers cry. Well, once upon a time a royal commission was set up to investigate the activities of the infamous Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union (motto: “We catch and kill our own”). Somehow this inquiry into union malfeasance, led by straight-as-an-arrow Melbourne lawyer Frank Costigan, expanded into a full-blown investigation of Australian graft, corruption and dodgy tax deals.
Then, one day in 1984, a confidential commission document containing forty-two case studies of allegedly villainous behaviour was leaked to Brian Toohey at the now defunct Fair
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List of political controversies in Australia
See also the Brereton Report.