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A smaller man

1 May 2020

11:00 PM

1 May 2020

11:00 PM

A bigger picture Malcolm Turnbull

Hardie Grant, pp.704, $29.00

Never trust a person who keeps a diary. After all, who keeps a diary other than someone who wants subsequently to tell a story where the diarist is the hero, while everyone else, almost invariably, falls lamentably short of the hero’s expectations and deserts?

And so it turns out with Malcolm Turnbull’s political memoir.

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Emeritus Professor of History & Politics at Griffith University, Ross Fitzgerald is the author of 42 books, most recently ‘The Dizzying Heights’, co-authored with Ian McFadyen, and ‘Fifty Years Sober’, both published by Hybrid in Melbourne.

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