Mary Delahunty
Autore di Gravity: Inside the PM's Office During Her Last Year and Final Days
Opere di Mary Delahunty
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This is an admittedly partisan account, written by a fellow Labor woman, a person who was Education Minister in Victoria close to 2 decades ago, but was still certainly worth reading. I am an admirer of Julia Gillard (so I guess this is a partisan review), but I can agree with Ms Delahunty’s sometimes critical judgements of her friend, and also with the reasons she advances for forgiving them. Many people who reach high office do so quite unprepared for the job they are taking on, but the best of them have the opportunity to grow in the role. Julia Gillard, leader of a minority government and the subject of blatantly sexist opposition from all sides, including her own, didn’t.
She must take great comfort from the fact that her two immediate successors both crashed and burned with much less to show for it than she.… (altro)