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Albanese

Telling It Straight

Karen Middleton

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English
Vintage
03 July 2017
The moving personal story behind the very public political face of Labor's Anthony Albanese, written with the cooperation of Albo.

A window on the recent turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension. This is the whole story of Anthony Albanese and the remarkable mother, Maryanne, who raised him.

Anthony learned his political craft among the tough men and women of NSW Labor, inheriting his mother's devotion to social justice, the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the party his family had served for three generations.

Maryanne adored her only child and Anthony his only parent.

Until his teens, he believed she had been widowed before his birth. Then one evening, she sat him down and told him the truth.

This story reveals what shaped the bloke they call 'Albo', his climb through politics by playing hard, fast and sometimes loose and how as he and his colleagues wrestled with Labor's future, he discovered his own past.

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   355g
ISBN:   9781925324723
ISBN 10:   1925324729
Pages:   448
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Karen Middleton is Chief Political Correspondent at the Saturday Paper. Canberra-based she is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who has covered national and international affairs for almost 30 years. Her first book, An Unwinnable War - Australia in Afghanistan, was published in 2011 and tells the political back story to our longest military conflict - how John Howard's presence in Washington DC on September 11, 2001, led to Australia spending the next decade at war. Karen was Chief Political Correspondent for SBS television for 10 years and before that was Political Editor for The West Australian and Foreign Affairs and Defence Correspondent for The Age. She is a regular panellist on ABC TV's Insiders program and on ABC radio, a commentator on Radio New Zealand and Monocle 24 radio in the UK and currently contributes to the BBC online and The Australian Women's Weekly magazine in print and online. Karen has been a past contributor to The New York Times, CNBC and al Jazeera. She is also an occasional lecturer at the Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, in its Executive Education Program. As a volunteer, Karen has helped settle refugees in Australia and has designed a creative writing program for soldiers experiencing post-traumatic stress, to be delivered in 2016. She was a co-founder a chief lyricist for the Parliamentary Press Gallery's satirical singers, The House Howlers.

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