Ette Media's Friday Book Club brings you one fiction and one non-fiction recommendation on the last Friday of each month and this month we're spotlighting a tender, cathartic tale and a read that couldn't be further from that.
Where It All Went Wrong: The case against John Howard by Amy Remeikis
Reviewed by Antoinette Lattouf
There's nothing quite like a good political takedown to make your morning coffee taste sweeter — even when you take your coffee black, sans sugar.
Former Guardian political reporter Amy Remeikis, now chief political analyst at The Australia Institute and Friend-of-Ette delivers a bitter, cathartic read that removes any trace of the rose-tinted goggles one might have otherwise used to look back on the Howard Years.
Reading this tome on Howard is like discovering your ex's diary—it's not only horrifying, it’s somehow worse than you remember.
Her central question is this: Did John Howard’s brand of economic management and nostalgia (read hard-on) for a whiter, more conservative Australia rob future generations of a fair go?
