From Abbott to Turnbull
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From Abbott to Turnbull

A New Direction?

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eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

From Abbott to Turnbull

A New Direction?

About this book

At the 2013 election, many Australians expressed their concern with the chaos that surrounded the Labor minority governments of Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. They gave their support to Tony Abbott as a Prime Minister who promised to put the grown-ups back in charge with stable and strong government; a government with no surprises.However, Tony Abbott'sgovernment proved to be anything but stable and Abbott’s party replaced him with Malcolm Turnbull within two years.

Promising a new direction, Turnbull committed to a new style of leadership, an end to policy on the run and a more open government.

This volume, the twelfth in the Australia Commonwealth Government series, traces the key issues that characterised the Abbott and Turnbull administrations from 2013 to 2016. It comprises 15essays written by noted academics and political commentators and covers a range of topics including leadership, the economy, asylum seeker policy, education, the role of the independents in the Senate, the environment and the changing face of the Australian electorate.

Discussion in the book focuses onissues that invite readers to consider whether or not the change from Abbott to Turnbull did provide a new direction for the government, a matter that occupiedmany voters as they considered their vote in the July 2016 double dissolution election.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contributing Authors
  3. Chapter 1There’s never been a better time to change Prime Minister
  4. Chapter 2A decade of democratic decline: how Australians understand and imagine their democracy
  5. Chapter 3New wine, old wine skins: perspectives on the ‘feral’ Senate
  6. Chapter 4The public sector
  7. Chapter 5The media
  8. Chapter 6Integrity and public sector governance: a democratic deficit?
  9. Chapter 7The climate policy carousel
  10. Chapter 8Foreign policy: old alliances, new problems and the retreat of soft power
  11. Chapter 9Operation Sovereign Borders
  12. Chapter 10Education policy: from bipartisan promises to radical agendas
  13. Chapter 11Health and social policy
  14. Chapter 12Macroeconomic performance and policies
  15. Chapter 13National cities agenda in perspective: rhetoric or substance?
  16. Chapter 14Five Prime Ministers: a crisis, a political aberration or the new normal?
  17. Chapter 15From austerity to the new economy—prime ministerial leadership in a time of mistrust
  18. Appendix: The Australian Commonwealth Administration Series