Dark Victory by David Marr & Marian Wilkinson

They put lives at risk. They twisted the law. They drew the military into the heart of an election campaign. They muzzled the press. They misused intelligence services, defied the Unite Nations, antagonised Indonesia and bribed poverty stricken Pacific states. They closed Australia to refugees--and won a mighty election victory.

Dark Victory is the secret history of John Howard's campaign against boat people that began with the Tampa and ended ten extraordinary weeks later--after deaths and disappearances, violent confrontations in the Indian Ocean and international uproar--with the Australian people giving the Prime Minister his third, most daring election victory.

David Marr and Marian Wilkinson, two of the country's most accomplished investigative journalists, burrow deep into the ways of John Howard's Australia. They reveal a world of ruthlessly skilled politicians, timid bureaucrats, a cowed Opposition, outmanoeuvred top brass, subtle spin doctors--and the men and women arriving on rotten boats who found themselves ambushed at sea by an angry Australia.

Dark Victory is a thrilling and provocative account of events that shattered many of the myths Australia has about itself and changed profoundly the way it is seen in the eyes of the world.

Genres: Nonfiction - Politics - Australia
Condition: Good
Published: 2003 by Allen & Unwin
Pages: 350 
ISBN: 1865089397
Weight: 625g