The engine room of government : the Queensland Premier's Department 1859-2001 / Joanne Scott et al.

St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2001.

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Queensland. -- Premier's Department.

Queensland -- Politics and government -- History.

Queensland -- Politics and government.

1. The view from the top: then and now

2. The centre of the government: the Colonial Secretary's Office 1859-1886

3. The affairs outside: the Chief Secretary's Department 1886-1915

4. A jumble store of administrative oddments: the Premier's Department 1915-1957

5. Everyone's problems are on your desk: the Premier's Department 1957-1987

6. The engine room of government: the Premier's Department 1987-2001

7. Working in the Premier's Department

8. Supporting the Cabinet

9. A work of supreme importance: the Co-Ordinator-General of Public Works

10. Serving the Governors and the Executive Council

11. Selling Queensland to the world

12. Protocol and royal visits

13. Queensland, the Commonwealth and the world

14. Continuity and change: the Premier's Department over 140 years.

1 copy donated by Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Includes index.

0702232653

xiv, 434 p.