From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting
by Brett, Judith
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- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1925603849
- ISBN 13
- 9781925603842
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2019. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 199 pp. Australia is one of only a few countries in the world that enforce compulsory voting at elections, We celebrate this with barbecues and cake stalls at polling stations, and election parties that spill over into Sunday morning. The author is the celebrated historian Judith Brett, the prize-winning biographer of pioneer Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. A landmark account of the character of Australian democracy.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18119
- Title
- From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting
- Author
- Brett, Judith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1925603849
- ISBN 13
- 9781925603842
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- australian government, politics, elections, voting
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...