Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations

Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 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 ?nds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minist...