Following Julia Gillard’s ousting as Prime Minister of Australia, here is the leading article from this week’s Spectator Australia examining her political demise. In recent weeks, authority and credibility had been draining away from Julia Gillard as if from an open wound. The effect of three years of mounting mistrust in the country and her party over any number
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This week’s issue of the Spectator is packed with book reviews. Here’s a selection of quotes to whet your appetite. Old China hand Jonathan Mirsky finds much to applaud in Rana Mitter’s history of the Sino-Japanese war. ‘Into the Fifties, as Mitter outlines, a storm gathered in the US over ‘who lost China’; and those
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‘I’m preventable death.’
‘Besides drink a lot, what does your daddy do, Thomas?’
‘Oh come on, guys. I’m a dinosaur! Kids love dinosaurs.’
‘The children are playing shop.’
‘I’m expecting a cherub.’
‘Any-of-the-major-credit-cards-a-job week...’
‘This must be the Ring road.’
‘Wait a minute – what about my severance package?’
‘I don’t want a haircut — I just dropped in to talk about where I’m going this summer.’
‘We did comparative religion at school today, Mum.’
‘I guess they’re just trying to deal with the psychological torture of being in captivity.’
