Book reviewed in this article:ALF RATTIGAN,Industry Assistance: the inside storyB. HEAD(ed.),The Politics of Development in AustraliaA. PATIENCE (ed.),The Bjelke‐Petersen Premiership 1968–1983: Issues in Public PolicyDONALD C. ROWAT,The Ombudsman Plan: The Worldwide Spread of an IdeaP. R. HAY, J. HALLIGAN, J. WAR‐HURST and B. COSTAR (eds),Essays on Victorian PoliticsBEDE NAIRN,The ‘Big Fella’: Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891–1949JIM HAGAN,Australian Trade Unionism in DocumentsALEXANDER KOUZMIN, J. R. NETHER‐COTE, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds),Australian Commonwealth Administration 1983: Essays in ReviewJ. R. NETHERCOTE, ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds),Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984: Es