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Published 21-06-2010
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Shitstorm

Inside Labor's Darkest Days

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Published 21-06-2010
ISBN 9780522857290
Pages 288
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Imprint MUP POD

Shitstorm assembles a gripping picture of a rookie government facing the worst economic crisis in seventy-five years.

From respected journalists Lenore Taylor and David Uren comes the inside story of the Rudd government's darkest days in office. Its first term will be forever defined by the Global Financial Crisis, or-to use the Prime Minister's term-the 'shitstorm' that engulfed the nation and the world.

Based on interviews with all the key players on both sides of politics, Shitstorm reveals just how close Australia came to disaster, what Kevin Rudd and his colleagues did to avoid it, and the serious mistakes they made along the way-mistakes that now threaten the government's re-election.

Lenore Taylor is Guardian Australia's editor. She has won two Walkley awards and has twice won the Paul Lyneham award for excellence in press gallery journalism. She co-authored a book, Shitstorm, on the Rudd government's response to the global economic crisis

David Uren is Economics Editor with The Australian, where he has run the paper’s economics coverage since 2004, and is author the new book on Australia’s relationship with China, The Kingdom and the Quarry, which explores the tension between our economic ties and our strategic fears.