Some of Brandis’ purchases (with the date and cost of purchase following) over the period January 2009- December 2012 have included: Freedom and the Arts 9 Jul 12 $44.96 FDR 3 Aug 12 $26.15 Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left 3 Aug 12 $26.99 The Marmalade Files 3 Aug 12 $24.54 Eisenhower in War and Peace 8 Sep 12 $51.50 Quarterly Essay Issue 47: David Marr on Tony Abbott 8 Sep 12 $16.33 John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963 19 Oct 12 $24.51 Tudors: A History of England Volume 2 19 Oct 12 $26.99 Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain 2 19 Oct 12 $36.82 Tales From The Political Trenches 8 Nov 12 $24.54 F.C.B. Cadell: The Life and Works of a Scottish Colourist 1883-1937 2 Jun 12 $77.73 The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WW11 Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There 23 Jun 12 $20.42 An Incredible Race of People 23 Jun 12 $32.72 An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper 23 Jun 12 $50.69 George F. Kennan: An American Life 23 Jun 12 $53.17 Joseph Lyons: The People’s Prime Minister 3 Mar 12 $40.87 After America: Get Ready for Armageddon 3 Mar 12 $32.68 (Alas not the John Birmingham speculative fiction, but the Mark Steyn speculative non-fiction) Brief Lives 3 Mar 12 $16.33 Commonwealth Law Reports (Volume 244 Parts 1-4) 18 Apr 12 $529.74 The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War 30 Apr 12 $20.42 (Either a great or a forgettable read for Brandis to buy again; he claimed the hardbook edition on his publication allowance in July 2010) The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson 12 May 12 $43.33 William Pitt the Younger 27 May 11 $22.90 In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir 17 Sep 11 $32.73 Quarterly Essay 43, Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation 17 Sep 11 $16.32 The Conservatives: A History 2 Dec 11 $69.55 Commonwealth Law Reports Cons Index V219-242 22 Dec 11 $85.00 Dismissal 7 Aug 11 $24.54 (I am assuming this is the Nicholas Hasluck novel) Letters To My Daughter 7 Aug 11 $32.72 Commonwealth Law Reports Volume 243 Parts 1-4 25 Nov 11 $511.82 History Of Civilizations 30 Jun 11 $21.44 After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew 30 Jun 11 $21.44 An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark 30 Jun 11 $39.36 Berlin: The Downfall 1945 30 Jun 11 $20.01 Beyond Good and Evil 30 Jun 11 $13.56 Byzantium: The Apogee 30 Jun 11 $19.29 Byzantium: The Decline and Fall 30 Jun 11 $19.29 Byzantium: The Early Centuries 30 Jun 11 $19.29 Jerusalem: The Biography 30 Jun 11 $35.79 Mediations 30 Jun 11 $10.70 Memoirs: William Rees-Mogg 30 Jun 11 $46.53 MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 30 Jun 11 $42.95 Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles 30 Jun 11 $42.91 On Liberty and the Subjection of Women 30 Jun 11 $12.14 Orwell and Politics 30 Jun 11 $20.73 Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth 30 Jun 11 $20.01 Pitt the Elder: Man of War 30 Jun 11 $25.05 Rome: A Cultural History 30 Jun 11 $35.79 Stalin: A Biography 30 Jun 11 $21.46 Stalingrad 30 Jun 11 $20.01 The Battle For Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 30 Jun 11 $25.05 The Churchills 30 Jun 11 $25.05 The Lost Peace: Leadership In A Time Of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 30 Jun 11 $39.37 The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations 30 Jun 11 $53.69 The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2009 30 Jun 11 $21.44 The Popes: A History 30 Jun 11 $42.91 The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred 30 Jun 11 $19.29 The ‘Whig’ View of Australian History and Other Essays 30 Jun 11 $39.34 Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One 30 Jun 11 $10.70 Trotsky: A Biography 30 Jun 11 $21.46 Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ 30 Jun 11 2010 Take Back America: A Battle Plan 1 Feb 11 $40.09 Best Australian Political Cartoons 2010 1 Feb 11 $24.51 Obama’s Wars 1 Feb 11 $32.72 Brewer’s Famous Quotations 8 Mar 11 $45.00 The German Genius 8 Mar 11 $40.90 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage 27 Mar 11 $39.24 Roget’s International Thesaurus, 7th Edition 27 Mar 11 $40.90 The Art of Great Speeches 27 Mar 11 $32.68 The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages 27 Mar 11 $28.60 Three Cornered Life: The Historian WK Hancock 5 Aug 10 $49.05 Edward Heath: The Authorized Biography 5 Aug 10 $53.18 Traitor to His Class 7 Sep 10 $32.69 Lazarus Rising 5 Nov 10 $49.08 One Minute to Midnight 5 Nov 10 $22.87 Party Thieves 5 Nov 10 $28.63 Scribble, Scribble, Scribble 5 Nov 10 $45.00 Commonwealth Law Reports Volume 241 Part 1 25 Nov 10 $498.18 Commonwealth Law Reports Consolidated Index Volumes 219-240 25 Nov 10 $253.00 The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War 30 Jul 10 $53.18 Commonwealth Law Reports Volume 240 Part 1 26 May 10 $415.45 Hitch-22: A Memoir 18 Jun 10 $28.64 Inside Obama’s Brain 18 Jun 10 $28.64 Shitstorm: Inside Labor’s Darkest Days 27 Jun 10 $28.63 Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 3 Mar 10 $49.05 Harold Macmillan 20 Jan 10 $57.26 Penguin History of Modern Russia 20 Jan 10 $24.51 So Greek 12 Feb 10 $28.64 Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead 6 May 10 $30.26 The Audacity to Win 11 May 10 $32.68 Commonwealth Law Reports Volume 239 Parts 1-4 21 Dec 09 $491.82 Commonwealth Law Reports Consolidated Index Volumes 219-237 22 Dec 09 $225.00 Book 21 Jul 09 $122.95 Books 31 Jul 09 $53.14 Books 14 Aug 09 $491.82 Australians V1 Origins to Eureka 21 Sep 09 $49.08 Storm of War 21 Sep 09 $49.05 Enlightening Letters 1946-1960 21 Sep 09 $77.73 Book of Isaiah 21 Sep 09 $61.33 Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings 1 Nov 09 $36.82 Book 18 May 09 $31.82 Book 21 May 09 $122.95 Book 5 Jun 09 $29.22 Book 8 Jun 09 $13.87 The total cost of these items to the taxpayer was $6768.58. source: boilermakerbill.wordpress/2013/09/29/the-brandis-canon/
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