An Insider Tells
My Part In Their Rise And Fall
Why did Jeff Kennett crash from power so spectacularly? Emperor of Victoria one day and "all over, red rover" the next. Who is Steve Bracks, the apparently unassuming former schoolteacher from Ballarat who became Victorian Labor leader only six months before suddenly becoming Premier of Victoria? Backroom policy boy one day and leader of Australia's business, cultural and sporting centre the next.
What happened between "Cranky" Frankie Sinatra and Bob Hawke after the US singing legend called Australian women journalists "hookers"? And what was an infamous Painters and Dockers official doing dressed in white and bowling off-spinners in Bob Hawke's ACTU XI?
All these questions and many more are answered in this rollicking insider book on Australian political life and times in Victoria during the tumultuous decades between 1969 and 1999.
