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Quarterly Essay 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard

Quarterly Essay 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard

Judith Brett

25 “Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen argue”: Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, John Winston Howard: The Biography, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 386–387. 26 “He can't win, I can”: 7.30 Report, ABC TV, ...
Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric:

Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric:

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Sky Australian agenda with Peter van Onselen and Judith Sloan. Transcript. Senator Penny Wong. 21 October. URL: http://www.pennywong. com.au/ transcripts/sky-australian-agenda-with-peter-van-onselen-and- judith-sloan/. Consulted 30 ...
The Fox and the Flies: The Criminal World of the Whitechapel ...

The Fox and the Flies: The Criminal World of the Whitechapel ...

Charles van Onselen

In this brilliant study, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world and casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time - Jack the Ripper.
Diamonds Are But Stone

Diamonds Are But Stone

Peter Vollmer

He had received word through the underground grapevine tobeon the lookout for one Peter van Onselen. Withthe name came a description. He realized immediately thatthis was the single male guest ensconced in a roomon thetopfloor, the ...
Fox News Channelled Down Under:: The (so not) Contrarians

Fox News Channelled Down Under:: The (so not) Contrarians

Uthers Say

Following up “shades of loathing” with the News Corporation labeling and namecalling Peter van Onselen introduces his guests including Rees Muldoon as a “noted Lefty” and asks with sarcasm, “you must be highfiving yourself now that ...
Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and ...

Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and ...

Brian McNair

(Peter van Onselen) If there was one thing I could change, it would be to get rid of talking points. I think it really has poisoned political discussion. You get one group of politicians on one side, and another group on the other side, everyone gets ...
John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography

John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography

Peter Van Onselen

A portrait of one of Australia's longest-serving prime ministers, this biography goes behind the public image to find neither the strong-willed man of principle his supporters like to imagine nor the cunning opportunist painted by his foes.
Howard's End: The Unravelling Of A Government

Howard's End: The Unravelling Of A Government

Peter van Onselen

From the co-writer of John Winston Howard, the definitive biography of the Prime Minister, comes Howard's End, which takes us behind the scenes of both parties on the announcement of the election campaign and traces the stunning collapse of ...
Prime Ministers in Power: Political Leadership in Britain ...

Prime Ministers in Power: Political Leadership in Britain ...

M. Bennister

Howard's biographers Wayne Errington and Peter Van Onselen were unequivocal about the importance of Sinodinos and Nutt to Howard. These two men have been the engine room of the most powerful prime ministerial office in the history of ...
Government Communication in Australia

Government Communication in Australia

Sally Young

50 Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington, 'The Government Members' Secretariat: The beating heart of Australia's PR state'. Paper presented to Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference ( Christchurch: ...
Routledge Handbook of Political Management

Routledge Handbook of Political Management

Dennis W. Johnson

45 Frank Gruen and Michelle Grattan, Managing Government (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 82. 46 See Peter Van Onselen and Wayne Errington, “Electoral Databases; Big Brother or Democracy Unbound?” Australian Journal of Political ...
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective

Toyin Falola

11 Chris Schumann, "Die Unie van Suid-Afrika tot 1939," in Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika, Deel II, ed. ... See Charles van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886-1914, 1, New Babylon ( Johannesburg: ...
Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead

Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead

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The Road Ahead Peter Van Onselen. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS An imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia ...
Professionals or Part-timers?: Major Party Senators in Australia

Professionals or Part-timers?: Major Party Senators in Australia

Peter van Onselen

Professionals or Part-Timers? examines the electoral professionalism of major party senators, as well as how they deal with the sometimes competing interests of factionalism and personal ambition.
New Babylon, New Nineveh: Everyday Life on the ...

New Babylon, New Nineveh: Everyday Life on the ...

Charles Van Onselen

Available for the first time in one volume, this book explores the Past struggles of everyday people on the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914.
Showdown at the Red Lion: The Life and Times of Jack ...

Showdown at the Red Lion: The Life and Times of Jack ...

Charles Van Onselen

'This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empire's great, unsung anti-heroes. The book is a scintillating achievement.
Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa : 1880-1899

Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa : 1880-1899

Charles Van Onselen

A fascinating true story of bank robberies, shipwrecks, highwaymen, treasure hunts and fugitives recounted by a master storyteller.
Bijeneters: zeven variaties

Bijeneters: zeven variaties

Peter Terrin

zeven variaties Peter Terrin. Volgens Van Dale is een variatie onder meer 'een daad waardoor (men) iets verandert'. Maar het is ook 'elk der verschillende bewerkingen van een zelfde thema'. Beide definities zijn van toepassing op De ...
Het innerlijke leven van dieren: liefde, verdriet, empathie ...

Het innerlijke leven van dieren: liefde, verdriet, empathie ...

Peter Wohlleben

De gepassioneerde boswachter en bestsellerauteur Peter Wohlleben neemt ons mee door de complexe emotionele wereld van dieren.
Hero of Fort Schuyler: Selected Revolutionary War ...

Hero of Fort Schuyler: Selected Revolutionary War ...

Peter Gansevoort, Jr.

Heitman,HistoricalRegister, 132; William Henry Van Benschoten, Concerningthe Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten Family in America: A Genealogy and BriefHistory (West Park-on-Hudson, NY: William Henry Van Benschoten, 1907), 75, 87.
Peter Van Der Linden's Guide to Linux

Peter Van Der Linden's Guide to Linux

Peter Van der Linden

While writing this book, the author spent an entire year helping new Linux users get started and once again demonstrated that he is flat-out brilliant at simplifying technology.
The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African ...

The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African ...

Charles Van Onselen

"Traces the psycholosocial development of one black sharecropping family over a one-hundred-year cycle, and tells of the triumphs and the tears of a black patriarch struggling to prosper ... a black man's manual of survival in what was ...
Oh, wat zijn we creatief ! / druk 1: het grote ...

Oh, wat zijn we creatief ! / druk 1: het grote ...

Peter ten Hoopen

Verslag van een onderzoek naar creativiteit op het werk, met aanbevelingen aan ondernemers om beter gebruik te maken van de creativiteit van hun medewerkers.
Voyage of a Different Kind: The Associated Loyalists of ...

Voyage of a Different Kind: The Associated Loyalists of ...

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Lester Van Alstine, Van Alstyne - Van Alstine Family History (Provo, Utah, J. Grant Stevenson, 1974) pp. y, 36; Peter shared the Kinderhook Patent with brothers John and Abraham after the death of their father Alexander in 1756, See "United ...
Het verborgen leven van bomen: wat ze voelen, hoe ze ...

Het verborgen leven van bomen: wat ze voelen, hoe ze ...

Peter Wohlleben

Bomen met emoties, gevoelens en een geheugen. Moeilijk te geloven? Misschien, maar het is waar! Boswachter Peter Wohlleben vertelt fascinerende verhalen over de onverwachte en ongelooflijke vaardigheden van bomen.
The Small Matter of a Horse: The Life of "Nongoloza" ...

The Small Matter of a Horse: The Life of "Nongoloza" ...

Charles Van Onselen

Nongoloza Mathebula's life is a poignant illustration of how political circumstances affect lives and how those lives encourage myths, setting in motion a spiral of events that eventually neither politics nor people have any control over.
500 Days: The Shelf Life of Malcolm Turnbull

500 Days: The Shelf Life of Malcolm Turnbull

Van Onselen

Taking over a parliamentary party in opposition, Turnbull's greatest challenge wasn't a prime minister with record popularity, but a Liberal Party utterly dysfunctional when not in government. 500 DAYS takes readers inside the office of the ...

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