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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1409 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man Subtitle: Bill Shortens Path to Power Author: David Marr Narrator: David Marr Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 09-24-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Politics Publisher's Summary: Bill Shorten is the man who would be our next prime minister. David Marr is the nation's leading writer of political biography. Marr's Quarterly Essay profiles of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott ignited firestorms of media coverage and were national best sellers. In Quarterly Essay 59, he turns his enquiring mind toward Bill Shorten. This controversial and brilliant new essay looks at the making of Shorten. It also addresses a key question: how does the union movement for good or ill continue to shape the Labor Party? David Marr is the multiaward-winning author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic and The High Price of Heaven and coauthor with Marian Wilkinson of Dark Victory. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TVs Media Watch. He is also the author of two previous best-selling biographical Quarterly Essays: 'Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd' and 'Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott'.