Book reviewed in this article:JAMES WALTER,The Leader: A Political Biography of Gough Whitlam.R. B. SCOTTON and HELEN FERBER (eds),Public Expenditures and Social Policy in Australia.ANDREW DUNSIRE,The Execution Process, Vol. I:Implementation in a Bureaucracy.HAL COLEBATCH,Policy, Process and Outcome in Government: A Study of the Rural Improvement Programme.JOHN WARHURST,State Governments and Australian Tariff Policy, Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University.BERNARD BARRETT,The Civic Frontier.