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The Gillard Governments

Chris Aulich Mark Evans Roger Wettenhall

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English
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
03 February 2014
"""The eleventh in a series of books on successive Commonwealth administrations, focusing on the turbulent years 2010 to 2013.""

""The years 2010 to 2013 saw a remarkable period in Australian political history- Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister after she successfully staged a leadership challenge to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. A few months later she led her party to the 2010 federal election, and subsequently steered through seventeen days of negotiation with three independent members to successfully form her second, but minority, government. Yet, three years and three days later, she was overthrown by the very man she had originally dethroned.

In this book, expert contributors consider the turbulence of that period and reflect on the Gillard governments' policy-setting, institutional and political legacies. In particular, they consider the issue of Gillard's leadership of a minority government and the arrangements needed to work with the Greens and independents to achieve Labor policies in the parliament. A recurring theme raised by many of the authors relates to the many distractions that prevented Gillard and Labor from gaining popular traction during the period. The book gives particular attention to Gillard as a female leader and the relentless campaign of denigration tha"

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Imprint:   MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   418g
ISBN:   9780522864540
ISBN 10:   0522864546
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mark Evans is the Director of the ANZSOG Institute for Governance and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Government at the University of Canberra, providing ANZSOG governments with strategic training and research support developing short courses in conflict transformation and an international masters of public administration program, as well as providing research on institution-building and governance. Prof Evans was also formerly the Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Canberra. Roger Wettenhall is Professor of Public Administration Emeritus anat the University of Canberra. He chairs the Management Committee of the Institute of Public Administration Australia/University of Canberra Public Administration Research Trust Fund and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010. Chris Aulich is a Professor of Public Administration at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra, and has specialised in the privatisation policies of Australian governments. He has published extensively in academic journals, professional magazines and books on issues relating to both local government and to privatisation.

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