دانلود کتاب My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches

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Intro --
Title Page --
Copyright --
Dedication --
Contents --
Personal Details --
Shame and forgiveness --
Holes in the road --
Send down the rain --
The image of man --
Hanging onto the facts --
My marriage was a house of cards --
Life and death --
Whitlam --
1975 dismissal diary --
The women in John Kerr's life --
The wreckage left behind --
Fraser's first cabinet meeting --
Edward Gough Whitlam shuffles off his mortal coil --
Political History --
Franz Ferdinand and the guns of Narromine --
The night Ben Chifley died --
John Howard's enterprising father --
Gorton's last secrets --
With Charles and Di in the desert --
Sydney, the irresistible city --
Bob Carr holds the fort --
Arts and Artists --
Harry Seidler vs Patrick Cook --
A mistress with the clippers --
Stanley Hawes: an honourable man a long way from Home --
Lutyens fights the last battle of the Somme --
Hill End: hard country, good painting --
Mr Mitchell's library --
MONA: art in the dark --
Margaret Tuckson: the widow and the paintings --
Skin in the Game --
Cairns, 1974 --
The betrayal of the hopes of 1967 --
John Howard, faith and race --
The lingering fear of blacks --
Australia Under Howard --
Australian politics in a nutshell --
Pauline slays Tasmania --
Brian Harradine's lunch --
Abbott & Costello vs Ellis --
Australia: so British underneath --
Jones, Laws and cash for comment --
The Queen makes a comeback --
Australia's Olympic spirit --
Baying for border protection --
Beazley's last stand --
Arne Rinnan, sailor --
Pink Pages --
A night out at the Cross --
Bigots in the name of Christ --
Conigrave's candour --
Myths and lessons of Stonewall --
A politician in the steam --
The business model of the faiths --
Modern Warfare --
A note on the language --
Manning Clark, Soviet spy --
Saving the nation from Salò --
What's Left these days? --
A common humanity. Australia, land without rights --
Andrew Bolt bites the dust --
The fright of our lives --
Chris Kenny fucks one dog … --
Howard's End --
The old Voltairean --
Wheat and chaff --
Kingaroy farewells Joh --
Shock jocks on the beaches --
Slapstick and the veep --
Haneef's week in the watch house --
Farewell to a fine old bastard --
The Writing Trade --
Demidenko: history, horror and fairytales --
McNeil's life sentence --
I had written him a letter … --
Farewell, dark spirit --
Last train to Venice --
Staying out of the picture --
The wisdom of Malouf --
Patrick White: the final chapter --
Table for Two --
And Rudd came among us … --
2020 --
The Henson panic --
A chill in the death zone --
Time on Christmas Island --
Build on the rock and not upon the sand … --
On the beach with Rudd --
Eloquence or else --
MacKillop makes good --
If at first --
Pell's nod --
Jobs for the blameless --
A few sleeps to victory --
Back in Safe Hands --
Tony Abbott: freedom rider --
Slamming the door --
Faction man --
Behind closed doors in St Kilda --
Not far to fall --
Torture in the Pacific --
Rome, a hard beast to wrangle --
Malcolm on the Western Front --
Falling in love again --
Once is enough --
About the Author --
Back Cover.