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y separately published work icon 2028 single work   novel   humour  
Alternative title: 2028 ... and Australia Has Gone to Hell in a Handbasket
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 2028
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'2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected— an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?

'Welcome to the Australia of 2028 where parking meters double as poker machines, radio shock jocks have been automated, the Communist Party of China has turned itself into a multinational corporation and ASIO's glory days are so far over that its resorting to surveillance of a Charles Dickens reading group. Outrageous, sharp and wickedly funny, 2028 takes us into the near future where the not very good ideas around today have become ten years worse.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2018 .
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      Extent: 307p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2018.

      ISBN: 9781760631062
Form: audiobook
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Audible Studios , 2018 .
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      Extent: 9 hrs and 17 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 September 2018
      ISBN: 9781721364169

Other Formats

  • Also dyslexic edition
  • Also braille.
  • Also large print.
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