Sunshine and Shade
A Diplomatic and Political Memoir
by David Connolly
This book is a political and personal memoir. In the book David Miles Connolly has drawn on family and historical influences which affected his trajectory in life. His early years were in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. During World War Two he was evacuated with his mother to Australia. Back in Ceylon, he saw the end of the British Empire in South East Asia. The book mentions his role in his time in the Australian Federal Parliament in (1970s-1990s), when the Liberal Party was in opposition and he served on various committees. After politics he was High Commissioner in South Africa during the time when Nelson Mandela was President and later accompanied him to the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
- By (author) David Connolly
"This book is an immensely readable account of the life and activities of a man who has served Australia so well in many ways. "David Connolly and I were exact contemporaries, having both been born in July 1939. We entered Parliament at the same election on the 18th of May 1974 and in the neighbouring electorates of Bradfield and Bennelong. "David had been educated at the much-admired St Ignatius College, Riverview, which was in my electorate, until the Redistribution Commissioners had the ill-wisdom to remove it.This book traces David's career, which had numerous iterations, all highly successful." John Howard OM AC Prime Minister of Australia 1996 to 2007
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