The Manner of Their Going
Prime Ministerial Exits from Lynne to Abbott
Published on 10. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
284 pages
978-1-925984-06-4 (ISBN)
Description
For those who want to understand Australian politics today - Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Has the job of prime minister become more difficult? It has certainly become more insecure, with six changes in the eleven years between 2007 and 2018. Here is the story of how all twenty-nine former prime ministers lost their jobs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kew, VIC
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925984-06-4 (9781925984064)
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Norman Abjorensen has taught at the Australian National University (the ANU), Canberra, from where he obtained a PhD for a dissertation on political leadership. He has also taught at the University of Canberra and at universities in Japan, China and the Philippines. He was Honorary Research Fellow at the Prime Ministers' Centre, Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, 2010-13. He is a prominent media commentator on politics and is a former journalist, having been national editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and political editor of the Sunday Herald. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the ANU's Crawford School of Public Policy and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.