Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

by Laura Tingle

"Eloquent and insightful ... a brilliant analysis" - Canberra Times

Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In this brilliant short book - an expanded version of her acclaimed Quarterly Essay -Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government.

Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186395614X
• ISBN13: 9781863956147
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Black Inc.
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"