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  • Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise
  • By: Niki Savva
  • Narrated by: Corinne Davies
  • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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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

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Interesting analysis disappointing narration

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.

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Excellent and insightful book

A thoroughly insightful and interesting book. Well researched, well told and the interviews with sources were fascinating. The book was let down by the narration; mispronunciations and odd inflections distracted from the text.

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Informative balanced book let down by the narrator

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.

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Excellent story, let down my the narrator

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.

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Labor fan girl by author

This book makes no attempt to be any thing more than a single sided view of events leading up to the 2022 federal election. Backing Labour all the way. While I don't disagree with this view, I learnt nothing to challenge my position of events or view of various positions.

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Great book, terrible narrator.

All of Morrison’s buffoonery condensed into one engaging book. The insider perspectives show how aware his colleagues were of how rotten he is.

The narrator was awful. She read it like a novel and her pronunciation was grating ie impordant v important & additood v attitude.

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How Good is the Narrator?!

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.

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A must read for those of us who want to make sense of last 3 years of national government

Niki Savva is a great Australian investigative journalist. She is at the top of performance. A journalist and author with integrity, curiosity, persistence, fearlessness, excellent narrative skills and attention to detail.
Read the book and find out for yourself.
Thank you, Nikki

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Excellent book.

Brilliant insight into a baffling era of Australian politics. Thoroughly enjoyed Savva’s incisive commentary and analysis.

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Bulldozed into the ground by the narrator

I found it hard to continue reading this book with the narrator having no idea how to pronounce Australian names, places or accents. Obviously the final narration was not proof checked or it would have been sent back for correction. I stuck with it because the content and construction of the book was excellent.

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  • 28-09-2023

An insight into 2 leaders

The inside story about Scotty from marketing and Albo. Independently written in an unbiased account.
An accurate portrayal of Morrison as a leader who stood for nothing
And lied at the drop of a hat to attempt cling to power.
An engaging listen.

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  • Pete Koets
  • 16-07-2023

Wonderful book terrible narration

The quality of the information, journalist’s work and structure of the book is excellent. How can all of this be given to someone to narrate who can’t pronounce people’s names or basic English words.
The editor and those who gave this job to an ignorant narrator should be ashamed as they have devalued the content.

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