On 24 November 2007 Australia resoundingly changed government. If you think you know what really happened during that tumultuous year behind the closed doors of the Liberal Party, in the back rooms of the ACTU and deep in the campaign war room of the Labor Party, think again.
Peter Hartcher, Sally Warhaft and Bob Ellis consider the rise of Rudd and Howard’s demise with Tony Jones.
PETER HARTCHER (LOCAL) PETER HARTCHER is an award-winning journalist and author, and is currently the political editor and international editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. Peter has a distinguished record as a journalist. He won the Gold Walkley Award for his investigative series into how Australia secretly negotiated a security treaty with Indonesia. He won the Citibank award for business reporting for his coverage of the Asian economic crisis. He was a Walkey finalist in 1992 for an investigative account of how Paul Keating challenged Bob Hawke for the Prime Ministership of Australia, and again in 2003 for his analysis of the United States’ motives for the invasion of Iraq.
BOB ELLIS (LOCAL) BOB ELLIS is an author, screenwriter, film director, film critic and occasional public poet. His 19 books and countless broadcasts have established him as a formidable political, moral, economic and social commentator. He has won three Premier’s awards, four AFI awards and 10 other major prizes including Columnist of the Year. And So It Went is his latest political book.
TONY JONES (LOCAL) TONY JONES is one of Australia’s most experienced and awarded journalists. As the ABC TV current affairs correspondent, Tony covered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the Gulf War, the war in former Yugoslavia, the fall of Kabul and the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. On his return to Sydney Tony became the executive producer of Foreign Correspondent. From 1994-96 he was the ABC's Washington correspondent before returning to reporting for Foreign Correspondent in 1997. In 1998 Tony returned to Four Corners before becoming host of Lateline. In 2008, Tony began hosting Q&A. He also presents ABC’s multi-platform program ABC Fora, which broadcasts on radio and online. Tony has won multiple Walkley awards for his reporting, as well as a Penguin, and a Silver and a Gold Medal at the New York Film and Television Festival. He has also been an international Emmy finalist.
SALLY WARHAFT (INTERSTATE)
SALLY WARHAFT is an anthropologist and the author of the bestselling Well May We Say: The Speeches That Made Australia. A former academic at La Trobe University, up until recently Sally was the editor of The Monthly magazine, Australia’s national magazine of politics, society and the arts. She is also a regular commentator on ABC radio.
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