Lock, Stock & Barrel. A Political Biography Of Mike Ahern

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 226 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Mike Ahern was a state premier with a difference. Eclipsed by the Machiavellian career of his disgraced predecessor Joh Bjelke-Petersen, he was also one of Queenslands most underrated premiers. He was relatively young and - for a National Party Leader - socially and politically progressive. The significance of his government was therefore much greater than his actual length of office as premier: from December 1987 to September 1989.Mike Aherns entire parliamentary career was underscored by constant battles with hostile forces within the National Party. Although he eventually forced himself into Cabinet and then the premiership, his party finally repudiated him.Respected political commentator Paul Reynolds thoroughly evaluates Mike Aherns political and leadership style, covering his long career in politics from the late 1960s to 1990. Not an authorised biography, this first account of Mike Aherns political life was nevertheless written with the cooperation of this one time premier and statesman.

ISBN: 9780702232947