Table of Contents
Introduction Australia, Stop Hitting Yourself 1
1 The Gathering Storm 9
2 Meet the Motley Crew 29
3 Mandate, Mandate, Mandate! 43
4 The Right to Be a Bigot 53
5 For Those Who've Come Across the Seas 69
6 Classified On-Water Matters 79
7 Putting the Coal into Coalition 91
8 No Cuts to Health 107
9 Not Your Average Jo(k)e 121
10 Meet the New Senate! 137
11 Someone's Getting a Shirtfrontin' 151
12 We All Live in a Competitively Evaluated Submarine 163
13 The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Spill Motion 177
14 Good Government Starts Today 187
15 I'm a Fixer 207
16 Who's Afraid of Human Rights ? 223
17 The Hunt for Team Australia 237
18 Everywhere with Helicopter 247
19 Whither Labor? 257
20 Abandon Ship! 267
Epilogue Is This the Best We Can Do? 281
Acknowledgment! Or Who's to Blame for this Book 291