Rusted Off
Why country Australia is fed up
$33.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2018
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER’S LITERARY AWARD AND THE WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
A big story from a small town.
Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off, she looks to her own rural community’s main street for answers to the big questions driving voters. Why are we so fed up with politics? Why are formerly rusted-on country voters deserting major parties in greater numbers than their city cousins? Can ordinary people teach …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143789284 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143789287 |
| Author: | Gabrielle Chan |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Gabrielle Chan
Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She has been a political journalist and politics live blogger at Guardian Australia since 2013. Prior to that she worked at The Australian, ABC radio, The Daily Telegraph, in local newspapers and politics. Gabrielle has written and edited history books, biographies and even a recipe book.
The daughter of a Singaporean migrant, Gabrielle moved from the Canberra press gallery to marry a sheep and wheat farmer in 1996 - the year Pauline Hanson was first elected to federal parliament. She noticed the economic and cultural divide between the city and the country, the differences in political culture and yawning gap between the parliament and small town life.
So in September 2017, she swapped interviews with politicians with interviews with ordinary people on her main street to discover why they think politics has moved so far from their lives. The result is Rusted Off- Why country Australia is fed up. In the process, Gabrielle draws conclusions about the current state of our rural political representation, the gap between city and country and how to bridge it.
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