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Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir

Evans, Gareth
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AUSTRALIANA POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC KC FASSA FAIIA is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, where he was Chancellor from 2010-19 and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, the Brussels-based independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation which he led from 2000 to 2009. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments from 1983-96, in the posts of Attorney General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and – from 1988-96 – Foreign Minister. During his 21 years in Australian politics he was Leader of the Government in the Senate (1993-96) and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (1996-98). From 2000 to 2009 he was President and CEO of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, the independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation.

xiii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs; 25 cm Signed by Author #291122
Evans, Gareth, 1944- | Foreign ministers — Australia — Biography. | Legislators — Australia — Biography. | Politicians — Australia — Biography. | Australia — Politics and government — 1945- | Australian

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Author Evans, Gareth
Number of pages425
PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
Year Published2017
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

Book Condition

Fine

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