Cirrus@Austlit

'The article focuses on journalist Mungo McCallum whose politics headed increasingly left as he made his way through university and his early years in journalism, as the Vietnam War began to escalate and environmental causes began to permeate the political consciousness of the young. It mentions that Mungo targeted politicians such as Arthur Calwell, and Henry Bolte.' (Publication abstract) 

''Let me get the really big news out of the way up front . . . I have never dyed my hair. And it's not a wig. Welcome to the world of television, with pockets of depth, rare brilliant insight but always the threat of superficiality.' Thus begins Kerry O'Brien's much awaited memoir. Kerry has been speaking to Australia for over fifty years. His is the voice of every significant event in our recent history, of turmoils, upheavals, national and international crises and celebrations.

'In journey from the nuclear to the digital age and beyond, Kerry O'Brien has come face to face with the giants of his time—from Mandela to Thatcher, Obama, Bowie and Muhammad Ali. In Australia he has watched twelve prime ministers come and go and has called the powerful to account. Born days after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, O'Brien is the quintessential post-war baby. In a ground-breaking but very personal account, he reflects on the social and political upheavals he has witnessed, of lessons learned and lessons ignored, and the personalities who have made history all the while sharing some of his own story.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The life of one of Australia's most intriguing public figures, former Prime Minister Paul Keating, as told to the country's most influential political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien. This long awaited collaboration is a biography unlike any other.

'Paul Keating, visionary, reformer, true believer, rabble rouser, polymath, and our most intriguing prime minister bares his soul to the country's sharpest political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien.

'O'Brien and Keating wrestle with history to produce a tour de force of political wisdom and personal insight that weaves through the Keating years in a unique and compelling way.

'Building on the transcripts of the must-watch ABC TV event of 2013 - Keating: the Interviews - O'Brien has gathered an enormous bank of new material, gleaned during many hours of further conversation with Keating, to create a book that is more forensic and all encompassing than the very successful TV series.

'Kerry O'Brien captures the hallmarks of the man - the nimble mind, the wit, the grandeur of vision, the complexity and the stubborn drive for power - as Keating explains the historic events, back room stoushes and moments of drama and pathos that the political world inevitably holds.' (Publication summary)

'Candid four-part interview series with Kerry O'Brien revealing the forces that shaped Paul Keating's ambitions, and some of the inside stories from Australian political history.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Kerry O'Brien in candid conversation with Clive James. As James faces the biggest challenge of his life - battling two terminal illnesses leukaemia and emphysema. Filmed at Pembroke College, Cambridge.'

'Kerry O’Brien’s interview with Clive James was about as good as it gets'

Wright discusses what her aims were with Carpentaria, and how she has been influenced by her grandmother in Cloncurry who told stories in a way that brought all times together, which is what Wright also tries to do in Carpentaria. She also discusses her literary influences.