Suchergebnisse

Books reviewed:Patrick Weller, Dodging Raindrops – John Button: A Labor LifeW. Funnell and K. Cooper, Public Sector Accounting and Accountability in AustraliaMark Latham, Civilising Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian LaborG.B. Adams and D.L. Balfour, Unmasking Administrative EvilG Terrill, Secrecy and Openness: The Federal Government from Menzies to Whitlam and BeyondL.R. Jones and F. Thompson, Public Management: Institutional Renewal for the Twenty‐First CenturyProductivity Commission, Inquiry Report, Report No. 5, Implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development by Commonwealth Departments and AgenciesRandal G. Stewart, Public Policy: Strategy and Accountability

After Paul Hasluck's death in 1993 his son Nicholas, himself a well-known writer, read the extraordinary manuscript on which The Chance of Politics is based. Drawn from Hasluck's private notebooks, it provides intimate portraits of people he knew in Canberra: among them Evatt, Casey, Barwick, Calwell, McEwen, McMahon, Whitlam and Fraser. There is also an enthralling account of events after the death of Harold Holt when John Gorton defeated Hasluck in a ballot to decide the new prime minister. Vivid, honest and wise, The Chance of Politics is more than a brilliant work of biography or an informal history of a fascinating era. In describing the struggles for power, the clashes of will and the trade-offs between leadership and expedience, Paul Hasluck takes us to the heart of politics and political character.