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Titel Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Numbers: 14 September 2015 -- Give Me the Child: 1967 to 1994 -- In the Headlights: 8-9 July 2015 -- Billy the King: 1994 to 2006 -- Let It Zing: 2014 to . . . -- Brutal Maths: 2000 to 2006 -- Love Me Do: 11 June 2015 -- Apprentice: 2006 to 2010 -- Minister: 2010 to 2013 -- Staying Put: 31 August 2015 -- Faceless Man: 2013 to 2015 -- The Rise of Modern Man: 2016 -- Sources -- Back Cover

Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear.Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats.Panic shows all of David Marr's characteristic insight, quick wit and brilliant prose as he cuts through the froth and fury that have kept Australia simmering over the last fifteen years.'Turning fear into panic is a great political art: knowing how to stack the bonfire, where to find the kindling, when to slosh on a b

Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have resumed battle for leadership of the nation. Here, in one volume, are their definitive portraits by Australias pre-eminent biographer and investigative journalist.Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, from the formative tragedy of his life the death of his father to his years as Wayne Gosss right-hand man, his relentless work in federal Opposition and finally his record as prime minister. Throughout Rudds life, Marr finds recurring patterns: a tendency to chaos, a mania for control, a strange mix of heady ambition and retreat and what has so far been an unb

Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott was already a brutally effective politician. He later led the way in defeating the republic and, as the self-proclaimed "political love child" of John Howard, rose rapidly in the Liberal Party. His reputation as a head-kicker and hard-liner made him an unlikely leader, but when the time came, h

Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope of the side but after a visit to the boiler room and a peek into the furnace they return enthralled by American ambitions and dream of becoming players in its games of power. Rupert Murdoch was one of these. Visiting Washington in 1972, the young tycoon fell under the spell of Richard Nixon and was never the same again.The flip-flops ended.

'Individual' (cá nhân) came to the

Vietnamese language in the first decades of the twentieth century, along

with a host of other evocative neologisms, such as 'society'

(xã hôi), 'ethnic group/nation'

(dân tôc), 'ideology'

(chu' nghĩa), 'democracy' (dân

chu' chu' nghĩa), 'science'

(khoa hoc), and 'progress' (tiêń

hóa). Initially, 'individual' was very much the poor

relation among these new concepts—merely an irreducible human unit

belonging to something else more significant. Thus, each individual was

urged to be a loyal citizen of the nation, an eager participant in some new

political organization, or a responsible member of society. Individuals were

often compared with cells in the body, each one having a legitimate role in

sustaining and enhancing the vitality of the organism, but meaningless and

incapable of surviving on their own. On the other hand, the danger also

existed of individuals acting in a selfish, short-sighted manner, which

could jeopardize the larger order of things. Such persons were said to be

witting or unwitting perpetrators of 'individualism'

(cá nhân chu' nghĩa).