John Cain's Years: Power, Parties and Politics

Drawing on official records and media accounts, supplemented by the diary he kept during his period in office, John Cain dissects the issues which critically shaped his premiership. He speaks frankly of the failures as well as the successes of his administration. In his down-to-earth, direct style, he ranges over the lean years for Labor, the era of corporate greed in the 1980s and the outbreak of factional turmoil in the party which finally eroded the discipline and sapped the energy of his government.