Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy has spent more than forty years observing politics in Western Australia across an extraordinary period of change in the state’s history, from 1970 to 2013. His insider’s account reveals first-hand the issues linked with changes to the social fabric of Australia; the jailing of two Premiers and a deputy Premier; the ruthless removal of a Premier mid-term; the election of the nation’s first female Premier, and the sensational ‚WA Inc‘ Royal Commission. Kennedy interviewed widely to make this account of how the boom-bust West was led into its status as an economic powerhouse of the twenty first century.
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Peter Kennedy is one of Australia’s most respected political journalists. He started out as a high school teacher and lecturer, then as a journalist with The West Australian. He moved to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1977 as the paper’s State Political correspondent and was Chief of Staff in the Canberra Press Gallery. Peter then became Press Secretary to Deputy Premier Mal Bryce. He was a journalist with the ABC from 1990 until 2010, and in 1995 was awarded the prestigious Clarion Prize for outstanding contributions to journalism. Peter Kennedy retired in 2010, but continues to provide political commentary, and is an Adjunct Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle.
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