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From Turnbull to Morrison The Trust Divide
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Contents
Mark Evans, Michelle Grattan and Brendan McCaffrie
Mark Evans, Max Halupka and Gerry Stoker
John Warhurst
Mark Evans and Jinjing Li
Susan Harris Rimmer
Harry Hobbs and George Williams
Jacob Deem and Anne Tiernan
Matthew Ricketson, Katharine Murphy and Patrick Mullins
Michelle Grattan
John Halligan
Brenton Prosser and John Butcher
Liz Allen
Virginia Haussegger
Pia Rowe
Michael Vaughan
Patrick Dunleavy and Mark Evans
Richard Hu
Andrew Beer
Tony Wood
Megan Davis
George Megalogenis
Michelle Grattan and Jane Seaborn
Michelle Baddeley and Karen Cong
Michael J Jensen
John Stirton
Frank Bongiorno
Mary Walsh
Mark Kenny
Brendan McCaffrie
Mark Evans and Gerry Stoker
Preface
With the first Hawke government, the then Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE), in association with the ACT Division of the then Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, published a joint book, Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984: Essays in Review. Since then, the University of Canberra, currently under the aegis of the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA), has established a tradition of examining each federal government administration from 1984, making a total of 12 volumes and representing a significant contribution to the study of Australias recent political history. These volumes are listed at the start of this book.
For this 13th volume in the Australian Commonwealth Administration series, we have brought together many of Australias most prominent academics and journalists to assess the contribution of the two Coalition governments under Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison formed since the 2016 federal election. The list of contributors we have assembled reflects our aim of combining quality journalism with academic rigour. The volume therefore includes longer evidence-based academic contributions with shorter journalistic vignettes on the issue of investigation.
The approach to this volume is similar to that taken in the previous books in the series. Each chapter chronicles the important events, changes and associated issues relevant to the topic being covered (What happened?); provides an exploratory analysis and identifies the pressures and influences involved (Why did it happen?); and gives the reader a sense of the significance of the issues, by discussing the implications for future governance (What was the broad significance of the issue?). Within this common framework, authors have been encouraged to develop their own particular approaches. Some follow the rubric precisely, others range more freely. The aim is to cover the core agenda of the TurnbullMorrison policy agenda. Following an introductory section, the volume is organised into four sections dealing with issues of continuity and change with regard to institutions, policy matters, leadership and the impact of the 2019 federal election.
