Truth of the Matter [Audiobook] download free by Gough Whitlam
- Listen audiobook: Truth of the Matter
- Author: Gough Whitlam
- Release date: 2005/2/4
- Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: Not Available
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780522852127
- Rating: 8.25 of 10
- Votes: 292
- Review by: Dominick Gage
- Review rating: 8.26 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/22
- Duration: 2H33M12S in 256 kbps (40.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, MPEG4 (compression 7-ZIP, DEB, TZ, BZ2, ZIP, LHA, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 204
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M23S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict, as Whitlam's reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable, and increasingly bitter, conservative opposition. The focus of the Opposition's scheming was the Senate, where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a political crisis.Whitlam, famous for his 'crash through or crash' style, refused to compromise with his political enemies. After consulting secretly with the Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, and the Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, Kerr abruptly informed the PM that he had withdrawn his commission. Half an hour later, Kerr swore Fraser in as 'caretaker Prime Minister'. At an election a month later, the conservatives were returned to office.Controversy and recrimination followed. Many Australians, including Whitlam himself, believed he had been the victim of a coup. In 1979, he published his own account of the events of 1975, The Truth of the Matter, an instant best seller. Out of print for many years, it is
- Other categories, genre or collection: Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000, Political Leaders & Leadership, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Australasian & Pacific History
- Download servers: Mediafire, MEGA, ge.tt, BitShare, Uploaded, Dropbox, Torrent, Librevault. Compressed in 7-ZIP, DEB, TZ, BZ2, ZIP, LHA, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.67 USD
- Dimensions: 133x198x30mm
- Weight: 319g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Carlton, Australia
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