Inside Kevin 07

Inside Kevin07 takes readers into the campaign war room and shows how a rookie team won an election from one of the most successful and experienced political leaders in Australian history. All of the key Labor players in the 2007 campaign, including ALP National Secretary Tim Gartrell and Research Director Nick Martin, cooperated with the writing of this book. Inside Kevin07 is the inside story of a modern political party machine and what it takes to succeed.
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Ordinary People's Politics

Respected academics Judith Brett and Anthony Moran get ordinary Australians to talk about life, politics and the future of their country.

This unique series of snapshots of Australian political culture takes us from the Depression through the post war boom, the economic changes of the 1980s to the early 2000s and the war on terror. Based on interviews done in the 1950s, the 1980s and the early 2000s, twenty-two ordinary Australians talk about politics and its place in their lives. The portraits are sharply etched to read like well-crafted political short stories.

You can hear Geraldine Doogue's interview with the authors from ABC radio here

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Brothers: Eight Leaders of the NSW Labor Council

Written by a sympathetic insider, this book by Marilyn Dodkin lifts the lid on one of the bases of power for the NSW Right - the peak union body, now known as UnionsNSW but still referred to by one and all as "the Labor Council".
For half a century the right wing of the New South Wales Labor Party has dominated the state branch and had a major influence on the federal ALP. Fundamental to the power of the Right has been its extraordinary grip on the leadership of the Labor Council of New South Wales.
This is a critical examination of the rise to power of eight men who led the Labor Council between 1946 and 2001. It provides an insight into the relationship between the Labor Council and the Labor Party and throws new light on the right-wing faction. Labor Council leaders Jim Kenny, Ralph Marsh and John Ducker were major players in the Industrial Groups and the fight against communists in the unions during the turbulent 1950s. In later years Barry Unsworth, John MacBean, Michael Easson, Peter Sams and Michael Costa brought their own styles to the leadership, all of them exercising power in the Labor Party.

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