Inside the Canberra Press Gallery : Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House
Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites.This historical memoir of a career reporting from The Wedd...
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