Words on the Waves: Liars, Larrikins & Lechers with Lech Blaine

Can anyone “Keep the bastards honest”? Politics has ever been a dirty game, but we have come a long way since the reinvention of Bob Hawke as a working-class man of the people. Bernard Keane (Lies and Falsehoods), Lech Blaine (Quarterly Essay: Top Blokes) and Judith Brett (Doing Politics), examine Australian politics and dissect the lies, the larrikin myth, class and gender.