About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Maxine McKew, Andrew Bolt, Stephen Hagan, Michael Moore, Mia Handshin, Robert Raymond, Padraic McGuinness, Peter FitzSimons, Leslie Cannold, Catherine Deveny, Janet Albrechtsen, Alan Fitzgerald, Imre Salusinszky, Gerard Henderson, Tommy Garnett, Leigh Sales, Mia Freedman, Margaret Fulton, Bernard Salt, Sandy Gandhi, Peter Hartcher, Terry Lane, Gus McLaren, Paul Sheehan, Max Teichmann, Ben Pobjie, Tim Soutphommasane, Elizabeth Farrelly, Robert Fidgeon, Brendan Shanahan, Andrew Norton, Sam Lipski, Matt Price, Mic Looby, Colleen Egan, David Burchell, Scot Palmer, Ginni Mansberg, Dean Jaensch, Kaz Cooke, Christopher Pearson, Alan Kohler, Emma Jane, Athena Starwoman, Kaj Busch, Martin Flanagan, Peter Wear, Robert G. Barrett, Michael Duffy, Briony Scott, Robert Duffield, Rex Jory, Phil Doyle, Trevor Sykes, Peter Ryan, Margaret Stevenson. Excerpt: Maxine Margaret McKew (born 22 July 1953), is a former Australian politician and journalist; she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales. Until 2007, the seat was held by the then Prime Minister John Howard, who had been the member for 33 years. She was only the second person to unseat a sitting Australian prime minister in their own electorate. At the 2010 Federal election she lost her seat to the Liberal Party candidate, John Alexander. Before entering politics, McKew was an award-winning broadcast journalist. She hosted a number of programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television and radio, most recently Lateline and The 7.30 Report. McKew was born and grew up in Brisbane, Queensland. Her father, Bryan McKew, was a boilermak...
