The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum with Frank Bongiorno traditional-recipes ’ —Tim Winton

’ —Tim Winton

Correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 35

Joseph Jude

Martinkus shows how the wealth of the Freeport mine underpins a regimen of repression and he reports on the rise of Laskar Jihad

The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum with Frank Bongiorno traditional-recipes ’ —Tim WintonSince 1901, thirty one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate challenge of wartime leadership. John Gorton, Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating each shook up their