Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days

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From respected journalists Lenore Taylor and David Uren comes the inside story of the Rudd government's first term in office. It is a tenure that will be forever defined by the global financial crisis, or - to use the Prime Minster's term - the 'shitstorm' that engulfed the nation and the world. Taylor and Uren uncover the challenges Kevin Rudd and his team faced, and through a study of their tactics and approaches, assemble a picture of a rookie government that is at once surprising and revealing.

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"A superb piece of long-form political and economic journalism." --Saturday Age
"A well written recent political history of Australia." --Newcastle Herald
"An outstanding book." --Bendigo Advertiser
"My view is that unlike a lot of political books that lose their traction when a particular landscape changes, Shitstorm still has enormous relevance." --Weekly Review

Author Bio

Lenore Taylor is an award-winning political journalist who has covered federal politics for twenty-two years. She is now national affairs correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and a regular commentator on radio and television, including the ABC's Insiders program. David Uren covered the global financial crisis as the economics correspondent for The Australian. He has thirty-five years of experience in economic journalism and has been working from the Canberra Press Gallery since 2004.