Battlelines
Tony Abbott's manifesto from the Canberra front bench.
Part memoir, part manifesto, Battlelines is Tony Abbott laying out his beliefs on the way to the Liberal leadership and the prime ministership. It is a candid, combative account of conviction politics — family, faith, the federation and the policy fights that play out in Canberra's corridors — from one of the more polarising figures the capital has produced. For the political junkie who wants the argument straight from the source, the debater who likes to know what the other side actually thinks, or the relative whose politics you will never change, it is a genuinely useful read. It rounds out any shelf of prime-ministerial books with the ideas of a leader who never shied from a fight on the floor of the House.
- Tony Abbott's part-memoir, part-policy manifesto
- Written on the road to the Liberal leadership
- A candid look at conviction politics from inside the capital
- A revealing gift for followers of Australian politics