Political Activism & Participation, World Politics, Politics & Government - General & Miscellaneous, Public Affairs & Policies, Diplomacy & International Relations

Dark Victory

Name: Dark Victory
Author: David Marr, Marian Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781865089393

by David Marr, Marian Wilkinson

Write a review

Overview

"Dark Victory is the secret history of John Howard's campaign against boat people that began with the Tampa and ended ten extraordinary weeks later - after deaths and disappearances, violent confrontations in the Indian Ocean and international uproar - with the Australian people giving the Prime Minister his third, most daring election victory." David Marr and Marian Wilkinson, two of the country's most accomplished investigative journalists, burrow deep into the ways of John Howard's Australia. They reveal a world of ruthlessly skilled politicians, timid bureaucrats, a cowed Opposition, outmanoeuvred top brass, subtle spin doctors - and the men and women arriving on rotten boats who found themselves ambushed at sea by an angry Australia.

Synopsis

Tells the story of Australia's Tampa crisis and the political strategy that powered it, and of how John Howard seized on the issue of border protection to bring himself back from the political dead. This book aims to bring to light the manipulation of the public, the mutability of the press and the machinations of one government.