Your time starts now: how leadership instability and revenge became woven into our political fabric
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Back in 2012, a major study on the selection and removal of party leaders in Anglo parliamentary democracies was published. The book contained a section with the inviting title of “Machiavellian tactics”. Most of the authors’ examples came from Australia.
That was then. Since the appearance...