The Longest Decade 2nd Edition by George Megalogenis ISBN 978-1921753039 1921753039
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ISBN 10:1921753039
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Author: George Megalogenis
Paul Keating and John Howard altered the nation’s body-clock. Between them, they dominated 30 years of power, as both treasurers and prime ministers. Typically, they have been seen only as antagonists with competing visions of Australia and its place in the world. In The Longest Decade, however, George Megalogenis argues that they also deserve to be seen as the twin architects of the political, economic, and social revolution that took Australia through a period of trauma and recovery, and then on to an era of unprecedented affluence. Strangely, both men also had the opportunity to retire on top — Keating in 1994 and Howard in 2006 — yet both stayed too long.
Based on exclusive interviews with both Keating and Howard, and on Megalogenis’s many years experience as a member of the Canberra press gallery, The Longest Decade is a brilliant, non-partisan analysis of the forces that shape Australia today — from the rise of working women to the triumph of the McMansion.
This is the story of how an era came to be defined by Keating and Howard, but it is also the bigger story of how Australia became a more complex society, and forced each leader to adapt before dismissing them both. This substantially revised and updated edition includes several additional chapters dealing with the termination of the Keating–Howard era.
Table of contents:
Introduction to revised edition
Chapter 1: ‘De-spiving Australia’
Snapshot #1: ‘You’re terrible, Muriel’
Chapter 2: Placido Domingo versus Fangio
Snapshot #2: Jumping the Picket Fence
Chapter 3: King Jeff
Snapshot #3: Keating as Book Critic
Chapter 4: Keating as de facto Opposition Leader
Snapshot #4: Super Pensioners
Chapter 5: Cut Down by Women, and Tax
Snapshot #5: The Beatles versus Gladiator
Chapter 6: ‘Rednecks with Blue Collars’
Snapshot #6: The Long Decade
Chapter 7: All the Way with Jakarta
Snapshot #7: The Most Popular Nation on Earth
Chapter 8: The Search for a Contest
Snapshot #8: The Waugh Years
Chapter 9: More Bypasses than Lazarus
Snapshot #9: Castlenomics
Chapter 10: The End of the Beginning
Snapshot #10: Envy Lines
Chapter 11: Guns and Budgets
Snapshot #11: ‘Please Explain’
Chapter 12: Unmaking the Keating Society
Snapshot #12: Hip Pockets and Hypocrites
Chapter 13: The ‘Government Salvation Tax’
Snapshot #13: Turning Khaki
Chapter 14: Howard as Warrior
Snapshot #14: Yes, in My Backyard
Chapter 15: A War Without Casualties
Snapshot #15: The Rise of the McMansion
Chapter 16: A Quarry with a View
Snapshot #16: Monopoly Money
Chapter 17: The Longest Closure
Snapshot #17: Blowback
Chapter 18: Revenge of the Working Family
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