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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Leadership Challenges from Menzies to Abbott -- Chapter 2: Rudd vs Gillard vs Rudd -- Chapter 3: Turnbull vs Abbott vs Turnbull -- Chapter 4: Hawke vs Keating versus Howard vs Costello -- Chapter 5: Duelling Amateurs - Gorton vs McMahon -- Chapter 6: Leadership Coups and Desperate Oppositions -- Chapter 7: Leadership Coups and Disintegrating Governments -- Chapter 8: Media and Momentum -- Chapter 9: Reporters and Players -- Chapter 10: Iatrogenic Spin Doctoring -- Chapter 11: The Doctrine of the Disposable Leader -- Appendix A: 73 Leadership Coups -- Appendix B: Tables -- Table 1: Successful Leadership Challenges -- Table 2: Longest-Serving Party Leaders -- Table 3: Leadership Coups and Government Survival -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Commentary: After all the overheated rhetoric over the Finkelstein Report, it may be an anti-climax to know that the key issue is the right of reply, or the right of redress, to those who feel they have been misrepresented in the news. Such processes are now done through self-regulation by the Australian Press Council, while the Finkelstein Report sees this as insufficiently effective and recommends a government-funded statutory agency.

Because the essence of terrorism is to produce a psychological impact far greater than its physical impact, the relationship of contemporary international terrorism with the news media has often been called symbiotic, with publicity described as the oxygen on which terrorism lives. Although this view is in many respects true, it over-simplifies a more ambiguous, varied and complex reality, and in any case, the policy options open to Western democratic governments in limiting this 'oxygen' are very limited both normatively and pragmatically. Equally important, but attracting much less scholarly and popular attention, is the news media's role in the problematic politics of counterterrorism. Here the attraction of heroic narratives to both media and governments – for their own different reasons – creates coincidences of interest. Powerful metaphors such as the war on terror encourage strategies which may be substantially ineffective, perhaps even counter-productive, while politically benefiting the governments adopting them.

Because the essence of terrorism is to produce a psychological impact far greater than its physical impact, the relationship of contemporary international terrorism with the news media has often been called symbiotic, with publicity described as the oxygen on which terrorism lives. Although this view is on many respects true, it over-simplifies a more ambiguous, varied and complex reality, and in any ease, the policy options open to Western democratic governments in limiting this 'oxygen' are very limited both normatively and pragmatically. Equally important, but attracting much less scholarly and popular attention, is the news media's rule in the problematic politics of counterterrorism. Here the attraction of heroic narratives to both media and governments - fur their own different reasons - creates coincidences of interest. Powerful metaphors such as the war on terror encourage strategies which may be substantially ineffective, perhaps even counter-productive, while politically benefiting the governments adopting them. Adapted from the source document.