Promise and Performance: The Albanese Government 2022-2025 edited by Scott Prasser

Promise and Performance: The Albanese Government 2022-2025 

Edited by Scott Prasser

Promise and Performance : The Albanese Government 2022-2025 edited by Scott Prasser

ISBN: 9781923224759

Paperback, 280 pages, $39.95

June/July 2025 Release

This is the first comprehensive review of the Albanese Labor Government. It seeks to provide a critical but balanced assessment of the Albanese Government’s first term. The academic and expert contributors to this edited volume have been asked not just to review what happened but to assess whether the Albanese Government has made its mark on Australian government and if so in what ways. Was it ‘reformist’ in the Hawke-Keating style, or was it ‘reformist’ in the more traditional Labor mode like some regard the Whitlam Government? Is there a leading reform that has made life better for Australians in a measurable way? Was its successes or failures of its own making or the result of trends outside its immediate control?

Contents  

Albanese and Whitlam: A Comparison – Professor Greg Melleuish

The Albanese Government’s election performances  – Malcolm Mackerras

Why Federal Labor can’t win Qld seats – John Mickel

The Public Service – Paddy Gourley

Parliament after the Jenkins Report – Dr Maria Maley

Government Services and Digital Transformation – Mike Kelly

Royal commissions and public inquiries – Dr Scott Prasser

Managing the Dutton Opposition – Professor Peter Van Onselen

The Economy – Gene Tunny

Fiscal Policy – Saul Eslake

Perverse Productivity Policies – Professor Gary Banks

Future Made in Australia: Old Wine in New Bottles – Alex Sanchez

Industrial Relations – Richard Calver

Environment, Climate and Energy Policy – Professor Aynsley Kellow

Aviation Policy – Professor Peter Forsyth 

Higher Education – Assoc Professor Salvatore Babones

The Voice – Dr Gary Johns

Religious Freedom – Mark Spencer

Foreign Affairs – Dr Michael Easson

Defence – Assoc Professor David Lee

Overseas Aid – Dr Andrea Wallace

Where is Australian Exceptionalism Now? – Professor William Coleman 

Lessons for the Future?  – Scott Prasser