- Title:
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Wednesdays with Bob
- Written by:
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Bob Hawke; Derek Rielly
- Read by:
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Jim Daly
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 45 minutes
- Published:
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May 28 2018
- Available Date:
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May 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489441416
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; Political
- Publisher:
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ABC/Macmillan Australia
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Price
Bolinda price
At 87, beloved former PM Bob Hawke reflects on a colourful life.
On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke – Australia’s 23rd and oldest living prime minister – has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the charismatic old master talk life, death, love, sex, religion, politics, sport... and everything in between.
On other days, to paint his subject’s enigma from the outside, Rielly interviews Hawke’s Liberal PM rival John Howard, Labor allies Gareth Evans and Kim Beazley, wife and lover Blanche d’Alpuget, live-in stepson Louis Pratt, and friends – diplomat Richard Woolcott, economist Ross Garnaut, advertising guru John Singleton, and longtime mate Col Cunningham.
The result is an extraordinary portrait of a beloved Australian – a strange, funny, uniquely personal study of Bob Hawke ruminating on his (and our) past, present and future.
'... fresh, irreverent and at times very profound ... It's like nothing else I've read on Australian politics.'
Booktopia
'[a] surprisingly endearing book.'
The Saturday Paper