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HomeMungo MacCallum - The Good, The Bad & and The Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers (Reviews)
Mungo MacCallum - The Good, the Bad & and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers (Reviews)
 Mungo MacCallum - The Good, the Bad & and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers (Reviews)
Author/editor: Mungo MacCallum
Year published: 2012

Abstract

MacCallum thinks that in recent years the 'most significant' leaders have been those who were 'the most courageous, the ones who burst through the roadblocks not only in society but within their own parties'. Examples are Gorton, Whitlam and Keating. These are called the 'heroes', often unsung in their own times and typically serving only a short term as Prime Minister...Review by John Uhr in the Canberra times 14/04/2012

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