David Day, Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia.(Book review)

Labour History - A Journal of Labour and Social History | May 1, 2009| | Copyright

David Day, Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2008. pp. 496. $49.95 cloth.

Andrew Fisher's daughter Margaret (Peggy) described her father as a 'man who saw visions and dreamed dreams and who served God faithfully all the days of his life'. This captures some of the quality of the man and something of what made Fisher such a good man and such a successful politician. Up until recently Fisher has been treated more like a footnote in Australia's history rather than a major chapter. This is highlighted by the fact, a fact as shameful as it ...

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