On Being A Minister : Behind The Mask

'On Being a Minister is a welcome how-to book for those truly interested in politics and public service. Always a passionate thinker, John Hill's wise book is flecked with the same urbanity that characterised his time in public life. What a relief to have a book about politics written with charm and true insight, instead of melodrama and vengeance.' - Nicola Roxon. 'It's hard to imagine a job that requires less education than that of government minister,' says John Hill. 'It's also hard to imagine a job where the occupant is less likely to seek help than that of government minister.' John Hill knew when he quit as a government minister that what he had learnt - often painfully - over 11 years was likely to disappear with him. So he wrote it down ... 'The most significant record of SA politics by an informed insider since fellow former Labor health minister John Cornwall's memoirs in 1989.' Paul Starick, The Advertiser. 'A rollicking good read and rates up there with Barry Cohen's How To Become Prime Minister as a manual for the aspiring politician. Along the way John Hill's intelligence, wisdom and urbanity shines and it is even self-deprecatory in places. The ending is as heart-warming as Bert Facey's in A Fortunate Life.' - Michael Atkinson, InDaily. 'An intimate and disarmingly frank peep into the mind of a policy-focused minister who thankfully did not take himself too seriously. John Hill gives us an engaging, and only too rare, tour of the inner workings of one of the last secret societies - a Minister of the Crown. It is written with a deft touch. Some of the anecdotes made me laugh and, particularly when he unpicks his relationship with the media, cringe.' - Matthew Abraham. 'John Hill writes with insight and great honesty about his time in the South Australian government. If only more politicians wrote like this, we would all have a much deeper understanding of the pressures and opportunities they face in their political lives.' - Clem Macintyre

• | Author: John D. Hill
• | Publisher: Wakefield Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 11, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 207 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1743053975
• | ISBN-13: 9781743053973