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Malcolm Fraser led a Liberal Party Government for seven years and 122 days. When he lost to Bob Hawke at 1983 election, no prime minister except Robert Menzies had occupied the job for longer. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by the controversy about the way he came power and quarrels with his own party after leaving it. Six years after his death, a fresh appraisal is long overdue, one unclouded or the dismissal of Gough Whitlam that put in into government by the political arguments in his post-parliamentary years. Dennis White worked for Fraser in his final term. He has set out to put the record straight in a monograph: Fraser in Office. White joins Menzies Research Centre Executive Director Nick Cater for this Watercooler Conversation Order Fraser in Office by Denis White: https://www.menziesrc.org/book-shop/fraser-in-office Support these podcasts by subscribing to the Menzies Research Centre from just $10 a week: https://www.menziesrc.org/subscribe Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.org About Fraser in Office: Fraser in Office is a long-overdue reappraisal of Australia's 22nd Prime Minister. It examines Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership in historical context, recognising the challenge of restoring good government after the Whitlam years. Unclouded by later political disputes and separated from the extraordinary manner by which he entered office, Fraser emerges as a leader of considerable substance. Author: Denis White Foreword: David Kemp Jeparit Press (an imprint of Connor Court Publishing and The Menzies Research Centre) Paperback, 104 pages, $24.95
As a special treat for all our dear Patrons, we discuss and laugh at conservative writer Derek Parker's 2014 self-published steaming pile of literature about the horrible world that would be unleashed by a Greens government, This Tattooed Land. Subscribe to Patreon to access the full 50-minute episode and help pay our producer Mike: https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU Blurb: In a not-too-distant Australia, an authoritarian Green government has taken power, and has ruled for a decade on the premise of dealing with "the emergency." Turner, former cop, former convict, sets out for Canberra with a radical mission: assassinate the Prime Minister. Travelling through the ruined landscape, drawn onwards by a growing obsession, he pieces together the story of the country and the people. And what he finds is startling, incredible ... and frightening. Woah. Published by Connor Court Publishing, Australia's home of cooked boomer literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connor_Court_Publishing https://seriousdangerpod.com Support the show: http://patreon.com/seriousdangerau See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Last year the world gained another bombastic populist and nationalist world leader who sent the political elities into another tailspin. In Brazil's 2018 Presidential election Jair Bolsonaro a well-known political maverick beat 11 other candidates breaking centre-left's grip on the nation's politics Bolsonaro was labelled a fascist by the left and international media, in Brazil so far during his Presidency he has introduced free market reforms, reducing the size of the state, rolling back the influence of cultural Marxism on the nation and empowering individual Brazilians. While Bolsonaro was attendance at the G7 late last month in France he copped a serve from President Emmanuel Macron due to the annual wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, Marcon said this was a global environmental issue as the amazon was the lungs of the world. Bolsonaro rebuffed any threat foreign interference over Brazil's sovereignty over the rainforest calling it colonialism and imperialism. The western media in response posted endless hysterical fake news stories claiming that the Amazon was going to be completely destroy, and that Bolsonaro was basically an environment criminal. Brazil being a Latin American nation with Portuguese its local language it is very difficult for those in the west to know the real story about Bolsonaro's revolution in Brazil and how he is transforming the nation. A friend of The Unshackled who can tell the real story about Brazil's new beginning under Jair Bolsonaro is Professor Augusto Zimmermann. He was born and grew up in Brazil but is most known in Australia for his distinguished legal academic career. He is currently a Professor and Dean of Law at Sheridan College in a Christian Liberal Arts college in Perth, Western Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney's campus, a catholic university. He has previously been a Law Reform Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australian and a former Associate Dean (Research) and Postgraduate Research Director at Murdoch University's School of Law. Professor Zimmermann is also the founder and President of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association (WALTA), a former Vice-President of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy (ASLP), a Fellow at the International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family, and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Australian Jurist law journal. He is regular columnist in the Australian media in the spectator, quadrant online, news weekly as well as on theunshackled.net. He has also authored four academic books including No Offence Intended: Why 18C is Wrong along with Joshua Forrester. Lorraine Finlay. Plus three volumes of Christian Foundations of the Common Law all published by Connor Court Publishing. Augusto Zimmerman explains Brazil before Bolsonaro which is gripped by corruption and socialism. With Bolsonaro in office the ordinary Brazilians have hope again and want to be free. The Unshackled Links: Website: https://www.theunshackled.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TUnshackled Twitter: https://twitter.com/Un_shackled Gab: https://gab.ai/theunshackled Telegram: https://t.me/theunshackled Free eBook: http://theunshackledbattlefield.net/ Unshackled Productions: The Unshackled Waves: http://www.theunshackledwaves.net Debt Nation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKKEHuAGzwVtIEIFW3cZOPg The Report from Tiger Mountain: https://www.theunshackled.net/reportfromtigermountain/ The Uncuckables: http://theuncuckables.com/ Rational Rise TV: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKKEHuAGzwVtIEIFW3cZOPg Support Our Work: Membership: http://www.theunshackled.net/membership Donate: https://www.theunshackled.net/donate/ Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/theunshackled Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theunshackled Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/TheUnshackled Store: https://www.theunshackled.net/store/ Other So
In this episode I speak to Michael Coates, author of Manus Days: The Untold Story of Manus Island. His book is available at Connor Court Publishing. Happy listening.
In this episode my guest is Anthony Cappello of Connor Court Publishing, who has just published David van Gend’s book Stealing From the Child - Injustice of marriage equality. Connor Court’s usual printer has refused to print the book. I talk with Anthony about that as well as corporate responsibility and the publishing business.
Despite its focus on education, Sally Ninham‘s recent book, A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American PostgraduateDegrees, 1949-1964 (Connor Court Publishing, 2011), covers a lot of ground: the waning of Australian-British ties, the rise of Australian identity, post-war Australian-US relations, and much more. The book is also personal: it details her own family’s experiences as young professionals studying in the United States after the Second World War. The discovery of a cache of family letters led her to consider how and why Australians went to study in the United States, and how the experience transformed Australia’s own higher education system and politics in subsequent decades. For the Australian students, American education opened the prospect of an Australia less dependent upon the United Kingdom. For the United States, then fighting the Cold War, Australian students opened the prospect of closer ties to Australia, an important ally. The book, which is built on an impressive body of oral history interviews, personal letters, and memoirs, is both an important cultural document and a very readable intellectual history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Despite its focus on education, Sally Ninham‘s recent book, A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American PostgraduateDegrees, 1949-1964 (Connor Court Publishing, 2011), covers a lot of ground: the waning of Australian-British ties, the rise of Australian identity, post-war Australian-US relations, and much more. The book is also personal: it details her own family’s experiences as young professionals studying in the United States after the Second World War. The discovery of a cache of family letters led her to consider how and why Australians went to study in the United States, and how the experience transformed Australia’s own higher education system and politics in subsequent decades. For the Australian students, American education opened the prospect of an Australia less dependent upon the United Kingdom. For the United States, then fighting the Cold War, Australian students opened the prospect of closer ties to Australia, an important ally. The book, which is built on an impressive body of oral history interviews, personal letters, and memoirs, is both an important cultural document and a very readable intellectual history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Despite its focus on education, Sally Ninham‘s recent book, A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American PostgraduateDegrees, 1949-1964 (Connor Court Publishing, 2011), covers a lot of ground: the waning of Australian-British ties, the rise of Australian identity, post-war Australian-US relations, and much more. The book is also personal: it details her own family’s experiences as young professionals studying in the United States after the Second World War. The discovery of a cache of family letters led her to consider how and why Australians went to study in the United States, and how the experience transformed Australia’s own higher education system and politics in subsequent decades. For the Australian students, American education opened the prospect of an Australia less dependent upon the United Kingdom. For the United States, then fighting the Cold War, Australian students opened the prospect of closer ties to Australia, an important ally. The book, which is built on an impressive body of oral history interviews, personal letters, and memoirs, is both an important cultural document and a very readable intellectual history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Despite its focus on education, Sally Ninham‘s recent book, A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American PostgraduateDegrees, 1949-1964 (Connor Court Publishing, 2011), covers a lot of ground: the waning of Australian-British ties, the rise of Australian identity, post-war Australian-US relations, and much more. The book is also personal: it details her own family’s experiences as young professionals studying in the United States after the Second World War. The discovery of a cache of family letters led her to consider how and why Australians went to study in the United States, and how the experience transformed Australia’s own higher education system and politics in subsequent decades. For the Australian students, American education opened the prospect of an Australia less dependent upon the United Kingdom. For the United States, then fighting the Cold War, Australian students opened the prospect of closer ties to Australia, an important ally. The book, which is built on an impressive body of oral history interviews, personal letters, and memoirs, is both an important cultural document and a very readable intellectual history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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