The election is finally over, which means it’s time for every Canberra press gallery journo and political watcher to pen their take on what happened.
While we wait for the flurry of tell-alls and campaign diaries to arrive in bookstores, Crikey took the liberty of coming up with some suggested titles for any publishers out there. If you’ve got any ideas of your own, send them to boss@crikey.com.au for your chance to win a Crikey tote bag.
Skyjacked: The Rise and Fall of the Murdoch Government
The Whip Cracker: How Scott Morrison Tamed (and Shamed) Australia
Sally Rooney’s Abnormal People
Moving Heaven and TERF: How Australian Conservatism Came Undone
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (by Katherine Deves)
How Good Are Elections?
How to Kill a Mocking Turd
“A Hole in Your Budget” and Other Classic Aussie Hits
Teal-ing the Blues: How Independents Took the Liberal Base
Albanese Goes Over Easy
Wake Me Up Before You ScoMo
Fifty Shades of Teal
Scotty’s 21-Day Raw Food Cookbook
I Don’t Hold A Hose: A Cock and Bull(dozer) Story
Getting Off Scott Free
Easy Peasy Albanese
My Own Private Hawaii
Catch-44
Waiting for ICAC
A Teal of Two Cities,
Cheat, Lie, Pray
Good old Tristram Scotty
Who needs to invent a title when you have none other than Josh Frydenberg’s mother’s Coping in Good Times and Bad about to hit the shelves.
The top 50 ICAC investigations we need to have.
Yes, the books will come. Now, I’m not a particularly forgiving person… and I don’t really like people… but I have the utmost sympathy for the children of the likes of Morrison and Frydenberg (to name only two). Not the spouses, just the children. If they are at all aware of the jaundiced community views of their parent and the vitriol being flung at them (no, I’m not feeling guilty about that), how will/do they manage this? How much are these youngsters prisoners of the household dinner-table due both to the parent’s objectionable behaviour in the political arena and to tendentious parental influencing? I feel truly sorry for them. I hope they are not harmed, but derive wisdom from these experiences.
How much are these youngsters prisoners of the household dinner-table due both to the parent’s objectionable behaviour in the political arena and to tendentious parental influencing?
Have to ask Jenny?