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John Uhr

John Uhr reviews 'Power Without Responsibility? Ministerial staffers in Australian governments from Whitlam to Howard' by Anne Tiernan

October 2007, no. 295 01 October 2007
The cover says it all. The photograph comes from the Cole Inquiry, but it could be from any number of recent events. In the centre is Prime Minister John Howard, smiling without hubris, a confident leader going about the business of leadership, ready to inform the Cole Inquiry what he knew and what he was never officially told. But the prime minister is not alone. Blacked out on either side are tw ... (read more)