The Years of Scandal: Commissions of Inquiry in Western Australia, 1991-2004 edited by Alan Peachment

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Protective plastic covering. Previous owner has left bookplate on inside front cover. Small mark on half-title page. Bend to back cover tail left corner.

The Years of Scandal analyses the political dynamics of eight key probes into allegations of police corruption, lying to Parliament, medical improprieties, financial corruption, family violence in Aboriginal communities and several serious local government scandals.

With each of these scandals, the State and, at the time, the national media deployed substantial resources to their coverage and analysis. Judgements were cast, reputations shredded, and readers, viewers, and listeners fed a diet of media-processed arguments. No period in Western Australia's history had seen it before.

The complex issues come into sharp focus as the book's nine specialist authors examine a machinery many consider open to misuse, even abuse, one that picks gingerly between legal niceties and political manipulation. (back cover)

Royal Commissions included - WA Inc, WA Police, Use of Executive Power, King Edward Hospital, Financial Brokers, Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities and Wanneroo Inc.