Laurie Oakes – författare

Laurie Oakes is the most influential political journalist in Australia - if he says something has happened, the rest of the media (especially the Canberra Press Gallery) believe him and report it as news. He is respected by both political insiders and the wider public. He has worked in Canberra as a political reporter for 39 years and reported on 19 federal elections. He regularly finds the big story way ahead of everyone else.Currently the national political editor for the Nine Network he is the man who interviews all the big names. From 1987 to December 2007 he wrote a weekly column for the Bulletin and since its demise he has been writing a column for the Saturday Daily Telegraph in Sydney and the Herald Sun in Melbourne.POWER PLAYS is a selection of 150 of the very best and most timeless of Laurie Oakes'' columns.

ON THE RECORD is a collection of the very best of Laurie Oakes'' reporting over more than forty years. He is a legend in the Canberra press gallery for breaking the big stories, and asking the difficult questions. Some of the decisive points of the 2010 election campaign are classic examples of this...Some issues haven''t changed - a Liberal Party report into the 1983 federal election loss that concluded the Fraser government was too often seen to be ''inconsistent, too pragmatic and, finally, too expedient'' would ring true today. Others have had a different course: over 25,000 Vietnamese boat people were calmly and peacefully accepted in the late 1970s, with bipartisan support.

A collection of the best of Laurie Oakes' weekly articles on national politics since the fall of Kevin Rudd, together with exclusive new pieces on the 2013 election campaign, the result, and the make-up and prospects of the new government. From the very first days of the Gillard government to the carbon tax issue; and from the return of Kevin Rudd to the vitriol and turbulence of everyday public debate, REMARKABLE TIMES is both a record of, and a guide to, a unique era in Australian politics.