Inside the Hawke Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary by Gareth Evans

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps, stickers and sticky tape on blank first page. Wear to book corners and edges. Faint marks on foredges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Body text and binding are still very good.

As good as it gets in Australian politics. That's how the Hawke-Keating Government is now widely regarded. But how did this highly able, ambitious, strong-willed group work through its crises and rivalries and achieve what it did?

Gareth Evans' diary, written in the mid-1980s and published now for the first time, is the consummate insider's account. It not only adds much new material to the historical record but is perceptive, sharp and unvarnished in its judgments, lucidly written, and often highly entertaining. (book flap)