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The Opportunist

The Opportunist

John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction

by Guy Rundle and Peter Craven
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2001

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In The Opportunist, Guy Rundle comes to grips with John Howard, the prime minister who, on the eve of an election, seems to have turned round his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terror.

This is a brilliant account of John Howard's dominant ideas, his concerted 'dreaming' with its emphasis on unity and national identity that reveals him to be the most reactionary PM we have ever had, the only political leader who would allow ideas like those of One Nation to dominate the mainstream of Australian politics in order to improve his political chances. Rundle puts Howard in the context of the economic liberalism he shares with his colleagues and opponents and the conservative social ideology that sets him apart. It is a complex portrait in a radical mirror which relates John Howard to everything from Menzies's 'forgotten people' to the inadvertent glamour of the government's antidrug advertising. It is also a plea for right-thinking people of every political persuasion to resist the call to prejudice and reaction.

ISBN:
9781863953948
9781863953948
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2001
Publisher:
Black Inc.
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
3rd Edition
Dimensions (mm):
233x168x9mm
Weight:
0.19kg
Guy Rundle

Guy Rundle is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Inland Empire: America at the End of the Obama Era, A Revolution in the Making: Robots, 3D Printing, Robots and the Future, 50 People Who Stuffed Up Australia (with Dexter Rightwad), Down to the Crossroads: On the Trail of the 2008 Election and two Quarterly Essays, The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction and Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer.

He has written four hit stage shows for the satirist Max Gillies; has co-written two musicals, All Het Up and Silly Season, the revue Absent Presences and the album Paradoxical Sleep; and was a writer, producer and deviser of numerous TV shows, including Full Frontal, Get A Life, Shark Bay, Comedy Inc. and Vulture.

Rundle's writing has appeared in most major Australian publications, as well as The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Private Eye, Spiked, Jacobin and Penthouse. He served as co-editor of radical bimonthly Arena Magazine for fifteen years and has been a long-time correspondent-at-large for Crikey. His awards include an AWGIE for outstanding contribution to Australian comedy and The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2008.

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