Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Tony Abbott: a man’s man
    Unavailable
    Tony Abbott: a man’s man
    Unavailable
    Tony Abbott: a man’s man
    Ebook232 pages3 hours

    Tony Abbott: a man’s man

    By Susan Mitchell

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    ‘If he’s elected as our PM in the future I would be very scared for women everywhere.’ — Mia Freedman

    When Julia Gillard — a woman who was unmarried and childless, and an atheist — became prime minister in 2010, Tony Abbott was left boiling with rage. Not only had he lost, but he had been defeated by a modern woman. For the time being, the ambitions of this fundamentalist Catholic and fiercely combative reactionary politician had been thwarted.

    Tony Abbott, a former pugilist and would-be priest, has dedicated his public life to the prosecution of his deeply traditional values. A favoured son in his own family, and raised in a cloistered world of male institutions, he has always been drawn to powerful mentors from his own caste — priests, zealots, and father figures. Perhaps this is why so many voters, especially women, dislike him: they sense in Abbott’s default aggressiveness and lack of balance a man not attuned to their centre-of-the-road, secular interests.

    In this blistering critique, Susan Mitchell explores how Australia’s would-be prime minister became the man he is today. He is at war, not just with the government, but in an unrelenting battle for the hearts and minds of the Australian people. There is still time, he believes, to achieve the position that his male mentors think he is destined to hold — that of leading the country back to ‘the proper order of things’. But is he the prime minister-in-waiting that the country has to have — or does he pose an unacceptable threat to his own party and to the nation?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateOct 3, 2011
    ISBN9781921942181
    Unavailable
    Tony Abbott: a man’s man
    Author

    Susan Mitchell

    Dr Susan Mitchell is well known for her ground-breaking, best-selling book Tall Poppies. She has published fourteen books, including a recent biography of Margaret Whitlam. Most of her books have narrated and analysed the lives of women in politics, business, sport, literature, and other major aspects of Australian society. She is adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at Flinders University, a radio and television broadcaster, and a former Opinion and Humour writer for The Australian. She is outspoken, bold and entertaining.

    Related to Tony Abbott

    Related ebooks

    History & Theory For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Why We’re Pushing Our Luck

      Jun 5, 2019

      Why We’re Pushing Our Luck
      2 min read

    • Article

      Pension Payments or Lump Sum? Take Your Time to Get It Right

      Apr 30, 2019

      Employer-sponsored pension plans have become an endangered species, but it wasn't always this way. Back in the mid-1970s, nearly 90% of workers in the private sector who had access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan had a pension. Many of thos

      3 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      Jun 17, 2021

      WRITING ABOUT MOANA PASIFIKA’S POTENTIAL inclusion in Super Rugby next year sent me off on a wonderful timing-wasting tangent of picking various Pacific Island XVs. There are so many permutations. Polynesian players who played for the All Blacks; pla

      6 min read

    • Article

      Gary Younge

      Mar 22, 2024

      Gary Younge
      3 min read

    • Article

      Growing Out Of Bullying

      Sep 11, 2022

      I am writing in light of the Sam Uffindell affair (Politics, August 27). For a while during the 1950s, I also attended King’s College. One day when I was a fourth-former, I was summoned to the art studio. There, a group of my cohorts were gathered to

      6 min read

    • Article

      Change For The Better

      Aug 4, 2022

      If 2021’s stinging Netflix documentary Hating Peter Tatchell (coproduced by Elton John and David Furnish) taught us anything, it’s that veteran human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is one of a kind. To put it bluntly, few public figures, if any, ca

      2 min read

    • Article

      'A Breath Of Fresh Air': Readers On Women Who Changed The World In 2020

      Mar 8, 2021

      ‘She was a breath of fresh air on inauguration day’ She is a young, intelligent and brilliant woman who will accomplish great things for good causes such as feminism, [and fighting] marginalisation, oppression, racism, etc. Our world today needs wome

      3 min read

    • Article

      Leaders

      Sep 17, 2021

      Leaders
      14 min read

    • Article

      What Woman Want

      Mar 8, 2021

      What Woman Want
      9 min read

    • Article

      Tanya Plibersek

      Sep 21, 2022

      Tanya Plibersek
      2 min read

    • Article

      Pretty Political

      Jul 5, 2022

      At time of writing this column, there are 650 elected Members of Parliament. Yet, since its inception over 300 years ago, there have only been 559 women MPs. Westminster, we have a problem. It has been documented that Prime Minster Boris Johnson’s ea

      2 min read

    • Article

      Antoinette Lattouf On Writing A Guide To Anti-racism: ‘I Was Sitting There And Sobbing’

      May 16, 2022

      When Antoinette Lattouf’s father suggested she pursue hairdressing instead of journalism, he warned people may not like a woman like her. “Especially not one who has so many opinions,” he had said. In her nonfiction debut, the Australian journalist r

      4 min read

    • Article

      Gender Gymnastics

      Feb 23, 2023

      “THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.” Cohorts of corporate t-shirts and signs have displayed that progressive motto for a while. It didn’t age very well. Today, what counts as a “female” leader is subject to ideological scrutiny. A variety of qualifying labels — s

      4 min read

    • Article

      Gender Gymnastics

      Feb 23, 2023

      “THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.” Cohorts of corporate t-shirts and signs have displayed that progressive motto for a while. It didn’t age very well. Today, what counts as a “female” leader is subject to ideological scrutiny. A variety of qualifying labels — s

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Veneration Of Saint Jacinda

      Aug 26, 2021

      Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A. Harte, Oneworld, £20.00 Jacinda Ardern: The Story Behind an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff, Allen & Unwin, £14.99 AT FIRST GLANCE, the adoration of Jacinda Arden is preposterous. Th

      4 min read

    Reviews for Tony Abbott

    3/5

    4 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words