Download or read book Learning to Be a Minister written by Anne Tiernan and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth examination of the day-to-day life of Australia's federal ministers at work. Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller draw on extensive interviews with current and former ministers, ministerial staffers and senior officials, to discover how a new ministry learns to juggle their simultaneous roles of member of Parliament and Cabinet, local constituency representative, and media spokesperson, not to mention their lives outside work.