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The Australian leadership reader : six leading Australians and their stories / Six leading Australians and their stories 6 leading Australians and their stories edited by Helen Sykes and Erica Frydenberg. - Brisbane : Australian Academic Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (electronic document)

Includes bibliographical references.

Front cover; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; About the Editors; Australian Honours Key; How to use this Leadership Reader; Leadership; Profile 1 -- Ann Sherry; Profile 2 -- Peter Garrett; Profile 3 -- Fiona Stanley; Profile 4 -- Michael Kirby; Profile 5 -- Larissa Behrendt; Profile 6 -- Gordon Samuels; Back cover

Of interest to ages 15 years and up and especially appropriate for use in Australian secondary and undergraduate studies, this unique book does not try to define leadership, but instead encourages the reader to fulfil that task themselves through a series.

ISBN: 9781921513107 (electronic bk.) 1921513101 (electronic bk.) 1281709182 9781281709189

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sherry, Anne, 1954-
Garrett, Peter, 1953-
Stanley, Fiona J., 1946-
Kirby, M. D. 1939-
Behrendt, Larissa.
Samuels, Gordon Jacob, 1923-
Kirby, M. D. 1939-
Garrett, Peter, 1953-
Behrendt, Larissa.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Leadership--Australia--Case studies.
Leadership--Australie--Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Leadership.
Leadership.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia--Biography.
Australie--Biographies.
Australia.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: HM1261

Dewey Class. No.: 303.340994