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Mark Latham (1) (1961–)

Auteur de The Latham Diaries

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11 oeuvres 196 utilisateurs 3 critiques

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Mark Latham was the Federal Member for Werriwa from 1994 to 2005, becoming Leader of the Labor Party in 2003. Since leaving politics, he has been a columnist for the Australian Financial Review and worked on radio and television as a political commentator. He is the author of nine other books, afficher plus including The Latham Diaries (2005), A Conga Line of Suckholes (2006) and The Political Bubble (2014). afficher moins
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Date de naissance
1961-02-28
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Australia
Lieux de résidence
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Professions
politician
writer
Organisations
Australian Labor Party

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Very interesting overvies of the way the world can view social inclusion. Olso Mawson and Tony Blairs (PM UK ) concepts. Big issue is Place MAnagement concept.
 
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Brumby18 | Mar 24, 2010 |
Latham has some important things to say in this book, about the state of politics today in Australia (and especially the problems of factionalism in the ALP) and also about the apathy and attitude of modern Australian society. Rarely is there a commentator willing to say it how it really is.
However, all this is undone by three factors. First is the vitriol. Latham would say he is just being honest, and Australian (because apparently being 'boofy' is authentic Australian), but often is is just sticking the knife in or trying to get back at people that pissed him off. Secondly, again and again Latham reveals himself as a hypocrite - making a big deal of his moves to change Parliamentary Super, yet he still got out with the old scheme. And it is this old scheme that allows him to slag off everyone (not having to worry about getting another job) and paint himself as a saint for choosing to be a stay-at-home Dad (not many Dad's get that financial choice in this country). If he really believed in his convictions he would have refused the old-style Parliamentary Super. Or complaining about the level of debate, only to descend into name-calling and character undermining.
The main thing that undoes the impact of this book is that it reads very much as though it was written in retrospect. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something about the way that it is written that makes this reader feel that the author did some judicious editing in hindsight.
So much possibility, such a waste.
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ForrestFamily | 1 autre critique | Mar 23, 2006 |
Thank God he lost the election.
 
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SpaceyAcey | 1 autre critique | Sep 23, 2013 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
11
Membres
196
Popularité
#111,885
Évaluation
3.0
Critiques
3
ISBN
43
Langues
1

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