Book review: 'Leadership Performance and Rhetoric'

By Norman Abjorensen
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:49pm, first published March 3 2018 - 9:14pm

Politics as practised in Australia has its own distinctive bare-knuckle style. It is rough-hewn, confrontational and all but devoid of subtlety. Few if any of our political figures would qualify, in the classical sense, as orators; it is more knock down or be knocked down. The bludgeon takes precedence over the rapier.

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