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  149–50“They do politics” and “All that was at stake”: David Marr, Faction Man, Quarterly Essay 59, September 2015, p. 44.

  154“public servants understood” and “Both politicians and”: R.A.W. Rhodes and Anne Tiernan, The Gatekeepers: Lessons from Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff, Melbourne University Publishing, 2014.

  156“John Howard used to”: Michael Thawley, to ACT division of Institute of Public Administration Australia inaugural annual conference, 23 September 2015.

  157“It can be”: Don Russell, Reflections on My Time in Canberra, Crawford School lecture, 31 March 2014.

  157–58“Most of us”: Thawley, 23 September 2015.

  164“The old class-bound lines”: Economist, “Stabbed in the Front”, 19 September 2015.

  168“Historians have tended” and subsequent quotes: Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History, Metropolitan Books, 2012.

  173–75“all these disparate” and subsequent quotes: Matt Bai, All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics went Tabloid, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

  188“There’s no single”: Malcolm Turnbull, quoted in Phillip Thomson, “Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: Don’t turn Australian into a glorified mail box”, Canberra Times, 23 September 2015.

  190“As at 1 July 2011”: Martin Lumb, The 43rd Parliament: Traits and Trends, research paper, 2 October 2013.

  191–92“Rapid turnover of” and subsequent quotes: Clare O’Neil and Tim Watts, Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment, Text Publishing, 2015.

  193“polls asking”: For example, Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2015.

  195“main repositories” and subsequent quotes: Ron Ashkenas, “How to preserve institutional knowledge,” Harvard Business Review, 5 March 2013.

  197–98“the size of” and subsequent quotes: John Faulkner, “Surveillance, intelligence and accountability: An Australian story”.

  200“We’re not just here”: Thawley, 23 September 2015.

  200–01“The wise”: Russell, 31 March 2014.

  ON EXPECTATIONS AND AMNESIA IN THE ERA OF MALCOLM

  216–17“In a recent article in the Atlantic”: McKay Coppins, “Nobody Knew Governing Could Be So Complicated”, Atlantic, 24 March 2017.

  219-20“Barrie Cassidy was just one”: Barrie Cassidy, “A united Coalition under Turnbull would be almost unbeatable”, Drum, 15 September 2015, www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-15/cassidy-a-united-coalition-under-turnbu11-would-be-hard-to-beat/6777158.

  221–22“In an interview in December”: Laura Tingle, “Malcolm Turnbull says he’s committed to reform, but in a pragmatic way”, Australian Financial Review, 21 December 2016, www.afr.com/news/policy/budget/malcolm-turnbull-says-hes-committed-to-reform-but-in-a-pragmatic-way-20161213-gtaag6.

  227“Turnbull has made arguments”: Malcolm Turnbull to author, Australian Financial Review Business Summit, Sydney, 9 March 2017. Transcript available at the prime minister’s website: www.pm.gov.au/media/2017-03-09/qa-laura-tingle-australian-financial-review-business-summit.

  229–30“the prime minister told the Victorian Liberal Party”: Speech to the Liberal Party of Victoria State Council, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 April 2017. Quoted in Adam Carey and Eryk Bagshaw, “Turnbull warns party faithful against drift to the right”, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 2017, www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/turnbull-warns-party-faithful-against-drift-to-the-right-20170401-gvbhjf.

  Acknowledgements

  My thanks to Margaret Swieringa for taking it upon herself to volunteer some excellent and helpful research for Great Expectations.