Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Gravity : Inside the PM's Office During Her Last and Final Days
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'Our first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard came to power suddenly in a coup that perplexed the nation. She hurried to an election and was chained to a hung parliament. She out-negotiated Tony Abbott and formed a minority government, but the deepest threat was from within: the man she beat for the top job would relentlessly undermine her for three torturous years. In this exclusive insider account, award-winning journalist Mary Delahunty teases out the personal from the political as she asks why we never got to know this Prime Minister. She reveals for the first time Gillard's reflections on why she struggled at the top, as well as the thoughts of other key players in this brutal saga. Delahunty had unparallelled access to the PM throughout her final year, and was the only journalist to speak to Gillard on that fatal June day. Gravity takes readers inside Gillard's private office to detail the drama-exposing the cost of defeat, and capturing just how fast power drains away.' (Publisher's Website)

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[Untitled] Tory Shepherd , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)

— Review of Gravity : Inside the PM's Office During Her Last and Final Days Mary Delahunty , 2014 single work biography
Thoughts of Dad Sparked Tears for Julia Tory Shepherd , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 June 2014; (p. 21)
[Untitled] Tory Shepherd , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)

— Review of Gravity : Inside the PM's Office During Her Last and Final Days Mary Delahunty , 2014 single work biography
Thoughts of Dad Sparked Tears for Julia Tory Shepherd , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 June 2014; (p. 21)
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