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Bulldozed

Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

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Bulldozed

By: Niki Savva
Narrated by: Corinne Davies
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Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession of Coalition governments rocked by instability and bloodletting, and consumed with prosecuting climate and culture wars while neglecting policy.

By the end, among his detractors—and there were plenty—Morrison was seen as the worst prime minister since Billy McMahon. Morrison failed to accept the mantle of national leadership, or to deal adequately with the challenges of natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. He thought reform was a vanity project. He said he never wanted to leave a legacy. He got his wish.

Niki Savva, Australia's renowned political commentator, author, and columnist, was there for all of it. In The Road to Ruin, she revealed the ruinous behavior of former prime minister Abbott. In Plots and Prayers, she told the inside story of the coup that overthrew Turnbull and installed his conniving successor, Morrison. Now she lays out the final unravelling of the Coalition at the hands of a resurgent Labor and the so-called teal independents that culminated in the historic 2022 election. With her typical access to key players, and her riveting accounts of what went on behind the scenes, Bulldozed is the unique final volume of an impeccably sourced political trilogy.

©2022 Niki Savva (P)2023 Tantor
Australia & Oceania Elections & Political Process Oceania Politics & Government World
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Fantastic, well researched look behind the scenes. Spoiled by constant mispronunciation by the narrator. Every time I heard Peter Duddon, stoodents, or consdidooshun. it made me grit my teeth. Really detracted from what is otherwise a riveting listen.

How Good is the Narrator?!

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Enjoyed the content but regret that an Australian narrator was not used. The American narrator mispronounced many names and sounded odd trying to use an Australian accent. As an Australian listener, which is surely the target audience, I would have appreciated an Australian narrator who was familiar with the culture, characters and names of places and people.

Interesting analysis disappointing narration

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Sadly the narrator of this book distracted me terribly. She read the story like a fairy tale and this grated on me. Ultimately this let the experience and the story down. I often find with books of this nature, the best narrator is the author.
However, I thought the book was very good and well researched, so props to Niki Savva.

Excellent story, let down my the narrator

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I agree with all the other comments. Why this narrator? I mean at least she was Australian, but it would have been good to have someone with better diction. Someone who said ‘twenty’ not ‘twenny’ for example. How are narrators chosen? Is it a question of cost? You pay for what you get? Anyway, apart from that the book was enjoyable. I know Nikki is preaching to the converted but that’s ok, that’s why I listened. I enjoyed her forthrightness. One thing I didn’t like was that the book is not strictly chronological. Rather, it is in topics. I suspect this was done so that each chapter can stand on its own and, for eg, be extracted and used in other forums. But what it means is that there is a fair bit of repetition as certain events or quotes are relevant to more than one topic and are repeated in different chapters.

Informative but annoying narrator

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Well written and well narrated story of Scott Morrison’s demise in the lead up to and aftermath of COVID. A good reminder of how unhinged he and his government were during some of the most important events in Australia’s modern-day history.

What not to do as Prime Minister of Australia

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Compelling and informative from start to finish. A fascinating and entertaining insight into the chaos and dysfunction of the Morrison years

Compelling

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Niki Savva is a terrific , balanced political writer who called out every incident of Morrison’s venality and betrayal of his party and the Australian people. However, this audible book is badly let down by the ill chosen narrator who would be better suited to light fiction. She continuously annoyed me by her inability to pronounce “t” eg par’y (party), commi’’ee (committee) and on and on she went. She also mispronounced names and places which in a book of this genre is unforgivable.

Informative balanced book let down by the narrator

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Great book. Nikki has done an excellent job of outlining the issues of the period and how the issues are not individual one off’s but demonstrate clearly an appalling character flaw by Morrison. More concerning is how the pursuit of power allows people to not see what is in front of them and therefore to allow such disgraceful behaviour to continue due to a fear of losing an election is completely disrespect of our political system and the Australian people. Our polity is seriously damaged by SoMo and his enablers. That is his legacy.

My only criticism of this book is the narration. Sorry but it is important to know the correct prononciation of people’s names and political terms and place names. So many dreadful errors that should have been corrected by an editor or whoever is responsible for such things not the narrator.

Great summary of Australia’s dark days

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The narrator has the absolute worst voice to be on Audible. Her voice is nasal and does not convey what Niki Savva’s tone or intention. Further, if she had researched the pronunciations of words for only briefly, the performance would have been somewhat passable.

So annoying

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The book deserved better treatment from the narrator. Simple things like the need for proper pronunciation ~ not ’twenny’ or ‘pardy’ ~ but twenty and party ~ and to ‘drop’ the lag times between quotations and attributions which disrupted the flow of events. It happens rarely but when the reading style and / or voice interferes with the content of a book it is always disappointing.

Absorbing Content ~ Poor Narration

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