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“Laura tingle: "So it's not jut that we see Gillard as a backstabber who brought down an elected prime minister, it is that we see her as the very reason we have minority government. Gillard has become the embodiment of a crushing number of uncertainties and disappointed expectations, both about politics and Australia's future, which makes voters uncomfortable -and in some cases angry.”
― Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
― Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
“In the press gallery, I estimate there have been four or five “generations” of journalists (there is a turnover every two or three years) who do not remember a time when political stories were not framed as leadership stories, or took as their focus how a policy decision would affect the fortunes of the major political parties, rather than giving at least some consideration to whether it is a good or bad policy, and how it might affect voters.”
― Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
― Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
“A senior public servant notes how the mission statements of departments changed during the 1990s, so that rather than saying something about maximising a particular outcome for the community, they emphasised the implementing of government policy. Ten years earlier, he says, the implicit meaning of the mission statement was that the department’s job was to come up with policies framed around the “national good,” not just the government”
― Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
― Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
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