John Wanna Books
Julia 2010
By John Wanna
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of one of Australia?s most historic elections, which produced a hung parliament and a carefully crafted minority government that remains a heartbeat away...
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With the benefit of hindsight
By John Wanna
Secretaries of government departments in Australia are the bureaucratic leaders of their generation. They are ambitious, highly-talented executives who have risen to the very pinnacle of their chos...
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The Ayes Have It
By John Wanna
?The Ayes Have It? is a fascinating account of the Queensland Parliament during three decades of high-drama politics. It examines in detail the Queensland Parliament from the days of the ?Labor spl...
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Future Proofing the State
By John Wanna
This book focuses on the challenges facing governments and communities in preparing for and responding to major crises ? especially the hard to predict yet unavoidable natural disasters ranging fro...
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New Accountabilities New Challenges
This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. It provides an ex...
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Abbott s Gambit
By John Wanna
This book provides a truly comprehensive analysis of the 2013 federal election in Australia, which brought the conservative Abbott government to power, consigned the fractious Labor Party to the Op...
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Managing Under Austerity Delivering Under Pressure
By Hsu Ann Lee
Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complacency about their performance, they now face an e...
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Putting Citizens First
By John Wanna
This book explores the ways in which governments are putting citizens first in their policy-making endeavours. Making citizens the focus of policy interventions and involving them in the delivery a...
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