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The Daily Dan

A timely political biography
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October 2022, no. 447

Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia’s most powerful premier by Sumeyya Ilanbey

Allen & Unwin, 312 pp, $26.95 pb

The Daily Dan

A timely political biography
by
October 2022, no. 447
Premier Daniel Andrews (photograph via SOPA Images/Alamy)
Premier Daniel Andrews (photograph via SOPA Images/Alamy)

During his first electoral campaign, Daniel Andrews hung a sign in his office containing a timeless political wisdom from Lyndon Baines Johnson: ‘If you do everything, you will win.’ He has continued taking it literally. Australian politics has, it is agreed, few harder workers than Victoria’s premier: he is in the same class as LBJ, who famously said that he seldom thought about politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Gideon Haigh reviews 'Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia’s most powerful premier' by Sumeyya Ilanbey

Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia’s most powerful premier

by Sumeyya Ilanbey

Allen & Unwin, 312 pp, $26.95 pb

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