The Reith Papers

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 362 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on page edges). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Peter Reith was a senior federal Cabinet minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the face of the Coalition governments tough waterfront reforms, a major contributor to the Fightback! policy, a potential leader of the Liberal Party, the architect of sweeping industrial laws and defence minister during the time that it was wrongly claimed that asylum seekers had thrown their children overboard. He was a key player in the introduction of the GST and influential as a republican in the 1999 referendum. serious diary keeper, Peter Reith maintained extensive records of those tumultuous years through the 120 notebooks he filled with conversations of colleagues, Cabinet discussions and his uncensored thoughts and predictions.

ISBN: 9780522862676