Are short prime ministerships the new normal?
- Written by Benjamin T. Jones, Australian Research Council Fellow, School of History, Australian National University
Malcolm Turnbull was the latest prime minister to be ousted before the end of his term in August, 2018.AAP/Sam MooyThis is an edited extract from Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia (Monash University Press 2018), edited by Benjamin T. Jones, Frank Bongiorno and John Uhr.
In 2004, the Australian Labor Party, led by Mark...





