Flying the Kite: Travels of an Australian politician by John Button

FLYING THE KITE

John Button has long been known for his candour, humour
and perceptive judgements of people, events and issues.
Flying the Kite gives him free rein. Based on his experiences
as a travelling Australian politician in countries ranging
from the United States to India, from Ireland to Scandinavia,
and from China to Vietnam, John Button writes on topics
as varied as the fundamental changes in the Australian
economy in the 1980s and our ability to operate in the
global market place, to what really happens to the
information gathered on Ministerial and 'study' trips abroad.
   He shares with us the experience of watching a Tasmanian
delegation handing out apples at an international economic
summit - but also looks at the sombre spectacle
of the loss of American confidence in the 1980s.
He lifts layer after layer of the 'onion' that is Japan - and
gives us an all-too-rare look at the reality behind the facade.
And he concludes with some iconoclastic views on some of
our Asian neighbours.
   Flying the Kite will enlighten, amuse and inform us all.

Genres: Nonfiction - Australia - Memoir - Politics
Condition: Good
Published: First published 1994. Reprinted 1994 by Random House Australia.
Pages: 241
ISBN: 0091828724
Weight: 205g