Settling the office : the Australian Prime Ministership from federation to reconstruction / Paul Strangio, Paul 't Hart, James Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strangio, Paul, author.

Hart, Paul 't, author.

Walter, James, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prime ministers--Australia--History.

Prime ministers.

Politicians--Australia--History.

Politicians.

Australia--Politics and government.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne: Miegunyah Press Digital, 2016.

Summary:

The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation through to the powerful, institutionalised prime-ministerial leadership of the postwar era.

Contents:

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prime Ministers of Australia: Federation to Reconstruction; Introduction: Inventing the Prime Ministership; Chapter: 1 The Colonial Inheritance; Chapter: 2 Ringmaster of the Early Commonwealth: Alfred Deakin; Chapter: 3 Prime-ministerial Polarities: Andrew Fisher and Billy Hughes; Chapter: 4 Thwarted Ambition: Stanley Bruce and James Scullin; Chapter: 5 Popularity versus Leadership: Joseph Lyons and Robert Menzies; Chapter: 6 A Nation-building Tandem: John Curtin and Ben Chifley; Chapter: 7 Settling the Prime Ministership; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780522868739

0522868738

OCLC:

1493618896