Back to Basics Breakthrough Proposals for the Australian Environment |
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| Author:
| Wescott, Geoff |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921410-31-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing
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| Imprint: | UNSW Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $13.95 |
Book Description:
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Australians take for granted the presence of their federal government yet it is impossible to overestimate, as this full biography reveals, the role Andrew Fisher played in its development. The book also reveals the skills with which Fisher led the ALP in its early years and his important contributions as wartime Prime Minister and as High Commissioner in London. Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man attempts to account for the obscurity of one of Australiaa s greatest reformers.
Australians take for granted the presence of their federal government yet it is impossible to overestimate, as this full biography reveals, the role Andrew Fisher played in its development. The book also reveals the skills with which Fisher led the ALP in its early years and his important contributions as wartime Prime Minister and as High Commissioner in London. Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man attempts to account for the obscurity of one of Australiaa s greatest reformers.