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By Bob Ellis

Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable sort, this can be a very own ebook aboutthe recentperiod of extreme political switch in Australia.Ellis's diary-style narrative starts off on 12 November, 2009(when Rhys Muldoon choices Ellis up from Parliament apartment and drives him to go to the poet Les Murray at Bunyah for a few full of life political discussions) and takes us throughto whilst Bob's someday mentor, Mike Rann, faces his contemporary assailant in in an Adelaide court.The ebook contains assurance and research ofsittings of the recent South Wales Parliament and the results of the South Australian election. a last part updates occasions via to April. Bob Ellis is with regards to the various political gamers in this rapidly-changing interval in Australian politics, yet he additionally manages to stick plugged in to the cultural scene, and has lots to assert in regards to the motion pictures, books and theatre of the interval. 'If you're but to develop into a convert to his laconic and hilarious writing, commence now' Canberra instances 'Bob Ellis isn't under highly interesting. He combines hyperbole, ardour, intensely own memory, feelings continuously at the floor, fantastic and outrageous generalisations and sullen anger right into a hilarious mix of Shakespearean rhetoric and stable, outdated Hunter S. Thompson-inspired gonzo journalism' Sydney Morning Herald

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