Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia’s most powerful premier
Allen & Unwin, 312 pp, $26.95 pb
Biography
The Daily Dan
A timely political biography
by Gideon Haigh •
Premier Daniel Andrews (photograph via SOPA Images/Alamy)
During his first electoral campaign, Daniel Andrews hung a sign in his office containing a timeless political wisdom from Lyndon Baines Johnson: ‘If you do everything, you will win.’ He has continued taking it literally. Australian politics has, it is agreed, few harder workers than Victoria’s premier: he is in the same class as LBJ, who famously said that he seldom thought about politics more than eighteen hours a day.
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