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The Good Fight : Six Years, Two Prime Ministers and Staring down the Great Recession.
A highly personal account of the Rudd and Gillard governments from the heart of the Cabinet and the real story of how Australia avoided the Great Recession from the man recognised as the best treasurer in the world.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
Allen & Unwin,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; PART 1. THE ECONOMY IN CRISIS: AUSTRALIAN TREASURER 2007-09; 1. No ordinary phone call; 2. Inflation genies and worst-case scenarios; 3. Storm clouds on the horizon; 4. Buckling up for a rough ride; 5. The greatest US government intervention since the Depression; 6. Go early, go hard, go households; 7. Why confidence is everything; 8. The need for overwhelming force; 9. Nation-building jobs plan: getting it through the parliament; 10. Dodging the bullet and avoiding recession; 11. Utegate.
- 12. Under opposition fire, even as the economy recoversPART II. THE EVOLUTION OF A LEADERSHIP CRISIS: KEVIN RUDD'S PRIME MINISTERSHIP, 2007-10; 13. The policy traffic jam; 14. Tax reform; 15. An epic fight to the death; 16. A leadership crisis; 17. The leadership change; PART III. MINORITY GOVERNMENT, BIG LABOR REFORMS: THE CURTAIN FALLS; 18. A short honeymoon and a knife-edge election; 19. Struggling in an economic bizarro world; 20. Hanging tough; 21. The curtain falls; PART IV. THE GOOD FIGHT GOES ON; 22. Enemies worth having; 23. The good fight; Epilogue.
- Appendix 1. The 0.01 per cent: The rising influence of vested interests in AustraliaAppendix 2. Land of hope and dreams; Appendix 3. Timeline; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Index.