6/4/2023 0 Comments The power broker book![]() Through one man’s story, this book shows how power works in Australia. ‘He taught me about power – how to get it and how to use it,’ says Noel Pearson. ![]() ![]() This many-layered book is a portrait of Jewish life in Australia, of the interaction between private wealth and politics, and of a man whose energy, formidable work habits and forcefulness that often tips into pugnacity have made him a highly effective player in Australian affairs. Finally, the book charts the surprise turn in Leibler’s life, when a social and political conservative became a committed advocate for radical reform on behalf of Australia’s Indigenous people. This is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man-an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the. The book vividly paints a cast of Australian characters – among them Paul Keating, John Howard, Julia Gillard and Noel Pearson – who came to know Leibler and to call him a friend, along with people like Kevin Rudd and Bob Carr, who see Leibler as no friend at all. This book shows how Leibler rose to a position of immense influence in Australian public life by skilfully entwining his roles as a Zionist leader and a tax lawyer to some of the country’s richest people. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. ![]()
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