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An account of some of Australia's best economic, political and social reform, including interviews with Fraser, Hawke, Keating, Howard, Rudd and Whitlam's confidant Graham Freudenberg. Table of contents: Three years late to the party The Gough shock A gathering crisis The ingredients for a crack-up Testing the nation's constitution The age of the rorter The siren song of the quarry The drover's dog has his day Learning to let go A license to reform Getting ahead of the game The cult of property Recession as nation-builder The dynamic duo dissolves The last serious election Rolling back the years Passing the tests He of the never ever Tuning in to globalisation The last rich nation standing. Relevant to Australian history, economics, social reform and politics.Paper; book. Front cover: white background; colour photographs of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and the character Kath (from the TV show Kath and Kim); red, black and blue lettering.Front cover: author's name and title; quotes from Annabel Crabb and Don Watson.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, economics, politics, social history, alp, australian labor party, liberal party australia, rudd, kevin, fraser, malcolm, whitlam, gough, howard, john, hawke, bob, freudenberg, graham, social reform, prime minister, society and culture

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