Inside the Canberra Press Gallery : life in the wedding cake of Old Parliament House /

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Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites. This historical memoir of a career reporting from Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chalmers, Rob
Corporate Author: Australian National University. E Press
Other Authors: Vincent, Sam, Wanna, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2011.
Series:ANZSOG (Series)
Subjects:
Chalmers, Rob.
Australia. > Parliament > Reporters and reporting.
Parliament House (Canberra, A.C.T.)
Parliament House (Canberra, Australie)
Australia. > Parliament
Government and the press > Australia.
Journalism > Political aspects > Australia.
Press and politics > Australia.
État et presse > Australie.
Presse > Aspect politique > Australie.
Central government.
Media studies.
Politics and government.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
TV and society.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
Government and the press
Journalism > Political aspects
Press and politics
Reporters and reporting
Australia
Parliament
Gouvernment
Press
Journalism
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites. This historical memoir of a career reporting from The Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House offers a rare insider's perspective on both how the gallery once operated and its place in the Australian body politic. Using some of the biggest political developments of the past fifty years as a backdrop, Inside the Canberra Press Gallery - Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House sheds light on the inner workings of an institution critical to the health of our parliamentary democracy. Rob Chalmers (1929-2011) entered the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1951 as a twenty-one-year-old reporter for the now-defunct Sydney Daily Mirror and would retire from political commentary 60 years later - an unprecedented career span in Australian political history. No parliamentary figure - politician, bureaucrat or journalist - can match Chalmers' experience, from his first Question Time on 7 March 1951 until, desperately ill, he reluctantly retired from editing the iconic newsletter Inside Canberra sixty years, four months and eighteen days later. As well as being considered a shrewd political analyst, Chalmers was a much-loved member of the gallery and a past president of the National Press Club. Rob Chalmers used to boast that he had outlasted 11 prime ministers; and a 12th, Julia Gillard described him as 'one of the greats' of Australian political journalism upon his passing. Rob Chalmers is survived by his wife Gloria and two children from a previous marriage, Susan and Rob jnr.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242).
ISBN:9781921862373
1921862378

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