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Political Animal

The Making of Tony Abbott

David Marr

Written by
David Marr
Read by
David Marr
Length
3 hrs 19 min
Rating
4.4 / 5
Series
Quarterly Essays
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Released
2012-09-19

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Politics & GovernmentPolitics & ActivismPoliticiansPresidents & Heads of State

What it is

Tony Abbott: prime minister in waiting.

David Marr: the nation’s leading biographer and investigative journalist.

In Quarterly Essay 47, David Marr goes beyond the clichés - Dr No, mad monk, gaffe-prone, budgie-smuggling gym junkie - to look at the man as he is and reveal what kind of prime minister he might be.

This is a unique portrait of a unique politician. Marr shows Abbott as part reactionary and part pragmatist, part fighter and part charmer, deeply religious and deeply political. But is Abbott a figure from the past or a leader for the future?

Following the explosive Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd, this is certain to be the most discussed political writing of the year.

About the series

Quarterly Essays in order →

Quarterly Essays — 78 books, showing the 24 around this one

  1. · Quarterly Essay 44: Man Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet4.0
  2. · Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand5.0
  3. · Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull4.6
  4. · The History Question: Who Owns the Past?4.5
  5. · Quarterly Essay 96: Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics3.0
  6. · Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern4.3
  7. · Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals4.3
  8. · Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing3.6
  9. · Quarterly Essay 102: The God We Made: The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence
  10. · Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Losing the War on Terror4.7
  11. · Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation4.0
  12. · Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal5.0
  13. · Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy4.5
  14. · Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention4.0
  15. · Quarterly Essay 68: Hugh White on Fading America and Rising China4.8
  16. · Quarterly Essay 95: High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink
  17. · Quarterly Essay 82: Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic
  18. · Quarterly Essay 42: Fair Share: Country & City in Australia3.7
  19. · Quarterly Essay 72: Netloss4.7
  20. · Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty4.3
  21. · The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell4.3
  22. · Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition4.5
  23. · Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country3.2
  24. · Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott4.4

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