Blind Conscience

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of New South Wales
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 286 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. This Book Shows What Happens When Politics Gets Personal.

Publishers Description: On the long list for the inaugural John Button Prize for Australian politics and social policy. This profoundly moving book reveals the untold story of the people who struggled to get asylum seekers out of detention and change government policy. Lateline journalist Margot ONeill, who covered many of these stories while they were happening, paints a compelling and heartbreaking picture through an extraordinary cast of characters. Some, like Petro Georgiou, Julian Burnside and Phillip Ruddock, are very well-known. Others are not famous but simply felt compelled to follow their consciences and act to help desperate people in desperate situations, often to the detriment of their personal well-being.

ISBN: 9780868408538