Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard

Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard
ISBN-10
0868409812
ISBN-13
9780868409818
Series
Power Without Responsibility
Category
History
Pages
283
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
UNSW Press
Author
Anne Tiernan

Description

A raft of recent political scandals in Australia has generated widespread media and public interest in the role and accountability of ministerial staffers, and their impact on relations between ministers and their public service advisers. Such scandals include the notorious ‘Children Overboard’ affair and the more recent AWB imbroglio. In Power Without Responsibility Anne Tiernan describes the contemporary working environment of political staffers, their formal and less formal roles, the challenges they face, and the forces that have escalated the growth in their numbers and influence.

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