Settling the Office

The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction

Paul Strangio, Paul 't Hart, and James Walter

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Published 01-02-2016
ISBN 9780522868722
Pages 304
Subjects History Politics & government Political leaders & leadership
Imprint MUP

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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.

About The Author

Paul Strangio is Associate Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. A political historian and biographer, he has written extensively about political leadership and political parties in Australia. Before recent studies of the Australian prime ministers, his last book was Neither Power Nor Glory: 100 Years of Political Labor in…