Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage : Writings on Australia.
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Introduction -- Part I How Did We Get to Here? -- Prelude -- Election 2019: Bitter Dregs -- Can Labor Stuff This Up? -- Indies in Indi -- Kooyong Teal Time -- Big Picture -- Palmer Job: the UAP -- The Radical Priest: Can Rod Bower ICAN? -- Casting on the Waters: Craig Garland, Fisher of Men -- The Pfhhh Last Time: Malcolm's Long March -- Riding the Bill Bus -- Greening Batman -- The Deluge: It's Time for Tony -- Kevin Falls from Heaven -- Part II Before the Deluge -- The Power Intellectuals in the Howard Era -- 1975 and All That -- The Way We 'Live' Now: Australia's Last Forty Years Part III Australia, All Around -- Uncovered Ground: Country vs Coal in the Valleys and Plains -- Bowen in the Storm -- The Cat and Fiddle on Woolworths Island -- The Gina-eiad -- Being Nick Xenophon -- The Mysteries of Elizabeth -- One Nation under Pauline -- Milo in Melbourne -- Part IV The Leaders We Had to Have -- 'Sir Prince Philip?' -- Mr Tony, He Dead -- Abbott Recriminates at Leisure -- The Executioner -- Malcolm Middling -- Contemptible -- The Bull Turns -- Part V At Issue -- 18C -- All Hands on Manus -- The Myth of the Anzac Myth -- Vietnam, the Tour? -- Statuesque Against National Shame -- Killing the Sun -- No! Not Sam! -- Holden's Gone -- Killing Rivers -- To the Seven Hills -- Left Right Arghhh -- Marooned: the Western Working Class -- Flickering Light -- Part VI Memento Mori -- Bob Ellis -- Gough Whitlam -- Christopher Pearson -- Laurie Carmichael -- Zelda D'Aprano -- Sol Bellear and Denis Walker -- Jack Mundey -- Part VII Grim City Mon Amour -- Brunswick Street Blues -- Every Time I See You Falling -- Joke Set-up at the Funny Factory: the Last Days of Big Sketch -- Fitzroy Speaks! -- The Death of Sisto Smoke in the Autumn Air: The Last Days of Checkerboard Book Exchange -- Acknowledgements -- Index