TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chalmers,Rob
AU  - Vincent,Sam
AU  - Wanna,John
ED  - Australian National University.
TI  - Inside the Canberra Press Gallery: life in the wedding cake of Old Parliament House 
T2  - ANZSOG series
SN  - 9781921862373
AV  - DU117.2.C4 I57 2011
U1  - 070.4493240994 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Acton, A.C.T.
PB  - ANU E Press
KW  - Chalmers, Rob.
KW  - Australia
KW  - Parliament
KW  - Reporters and reporting
KW  - Parliament House (Canberra, A.C.T.)
KW  - Parliament House (Canberra, Australie)
KW  - fast
KW  - Government and the press
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Press and politics
KW  - �Etat et presse
KW  - Australie
KW  - Presse
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Central government
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Media studies
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - TV and society
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Editors, Journalists, Publishers
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Gouvernment
KW  - Press
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242); Youth --; A Journo in Sydney --; Inside the Canberra Press Gallery --; Menzies: The giant of Australian politics --; Ming's Men --; Parliament Disgraced by its Members --; Booze, Sex and God --; Evatt, Splits and Garters --; Out on the Hustings: Getting in the votes --; Press Secretaries: Before spin doctors --; The Prime Minister Disappears --; The Influence Seekers --; The Coalition Starts to Slide --; Labor Out of the Wilderness --; Darkness Descends on Whitlam --; A New Home --; New House, New Rules --; Epilogue: Changing the game
N2  - 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 Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House offers a rare insider's perspective on both how the gallery once operated and its place in the Australian body politic. Using some of the biggest political developments of the past fifty years as a backdrop, Inside the Canberra Press Gallery - Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House sheds light on the inner workings of an institution critical to the health of our parliamentary democracy. Rob Chalmers (1929-2011) entered the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1951 as a twenty-one-year-old reporter for the now-defunct Sydney Daily Mirror and would retire from political commentary 60 years later - an unprecedented career span in Australian political history. No parliamentary figure - politician, bureaucrat or journalist - can match Chalmers' experience, from his first Question Time on 7 March 1951 until, desperately ill, he reluctantly retired from editing the iconic newsletter Inside Canberra sixty years, four months and eighteen days later. As well as being considered a shrewd political analyst, Chalmers was a much-loved member of the gallery and a past president of the National Press Club. Rob Chalmers used to boast that he had outlasted 11 prime ministers; and a 12th, Julia Gillard described him as 'one of the greats' of Australian political journalism upon his passing. Rob Chalmers is survived by his wife Gloria and two children from a previous marriage, Susan and Rob jnr
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