Promise and Performance: The Albanese Government 2022-2025
Edited by Scott Prasser
Paperback, 280 pages, $39.95
June/July 2025 Release
ISBN: 9781923224759
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
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