Learning To Be A Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities

Author: Patrick Weller & Anne Tiernan

Condition: Good

Paperback

351 pages  

This political book explores the question - 'Can ministers cope?' and how they cope, especially as relatively young and sometimes inexperienced players, in the transition to government after a long period in opposition.

Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller draw on extensive interviews with ministers, ministerial staffers and senior officials, to discover how a new ministry learns to juggle their simultaneous roles of member of Parliament and Cabinet, local constituency representative, and media spokesperson, not to mention their lives outside work.

Learning to Be a Minister is a unique political book providing an in-depth examination of the day-to-day life of Australia's federal ministers at work. A must read for new ministers, those aspiring to be ministers or political enthusiats.

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