Acknowledgements

I am deeply indebted to many people for providing me with material for this book. I wish to thank Sir Peter Abeles, Jose Aguiriano, Reo Allen, Gil Appleton, Lila Baillie, Kate Baillieu, Jim Baird, Lily Ballard, Ephraim Bar-Schmuel, Rhonda and Ron Blake, Francis Blanchard, Elizabeth Brenchley, Maggie Broadbent, Geoff Brown, Senator John Button, Helga Cammell, Sir Roderick Carnegie, Bernard Cherrick, Dr Colin Clark (for a letter), Professor Manning Clark, Dr Harry Cohen and June Cohen, Justice Judith Cohen, Peter Coleman, David Combe, Sir John Crawford, Chris Crellin, Col Cunningham, Sir George and Lady Currie, Cliff Dolan, Barry Donovan, John Ducker, G. L. Duffield, Don Dunstan, Sir John Egerton, H. E. Michael Elitzur, Senator Gareth Evans, Coral and George Fisher, Charlie Fitzgibbon, Bernard Fortin, Gwen Geater, Ray Geitzelt, Saadia Gelb, Rev. Allan George, Professor Jim Hagan (for books), Professor Keith Hancock, Albert Hawke, Rev. Clem Hawke, Dr Ron Hieser (deceased), Bob Hogg, Clyde Holding, Beatrice Holt, Rev. Clarence Hore, Jock Innes (for a letter), Bill Kelty, Pat Kennelly (deceased), H. E. Abraham Kidron and Shoshana Kidron, Sir Richard and Lady Kirby, Jack Knight, Eddie Kornhauser, I. L. Lagergren, Bill Landeryou, Harry Leece, Isi Leibler, Bill Leslie, Sam Lipski, David McBride, Mr Justice McClelland, Jennie McLellan, Gail and Rod Madgwick, Isadore Magid, Heribert Maier, Bruce Masters, Gwen May, Sir John Moore, Robin Morison, Joe Morris, Amal Mukherjee, Paul Munro, Zvi Netzer, Peter Nolan, David Pearce, Shimon Peres, George Polites, Oliver Popplewell, Professor John Poynter, George Poyser, Ben Rabinovitch, Dr Don Rawson, Peter Redlich, Oscar de Vries Reilingh, Doris Rhodes, Joe Riordan, Mr Justice Robinson, George Rockey (deceased), Bob Rogers (for letters), Ben Same, Saul Same, Prof. Geoffrey Sawer, Mike Schildberger, George Seelaf, Dr N. Shavit, Jim Shea, Michael Siew (for letters), John Simonds, Jean Sinclair, E. F. Sivyer (for letters), Dr Bob Smith, The Rt Hon. Michael Somare (for letters), Harold Souter, Don Stewart, Prof. Sam Stoljar, The Hon. Tony Street, Ari Tel-Shahar, Mr Justice Toohey, Uniting Church parishioners in Bordertown and Maitland, Barry Watchorn, Senator John Wheeldon, Sir Frederick Wheeler (for books), David White, Professor David and Marjorie White, The Hon. Gough Whitlam, Kelvin Widdows, Edgar Williams, Ian Willis (for books), Ralph Willis, Terry Winter (deceased) and Beryl Winter, Francis Wolf, Meg and Jules Zanetti, Patsy Zeppel.

I thank, too, the staff of the current information section of the Parliamentary Library, especially Bobbie Sluyters and Margaret Healy; the staff of the National Library, especially Leoni Warne and Mark Cranfield; and the librarian of the ACTU, Anne Wilson.

A group of four friends, whose expertise is in psychology and political science, were unfailingly generous with their time and their libraries. Many of the insights and ideas in this book are thanks to them. I am especially grateful to Dr Michael Epstein, a child psychiatrist; Professor Ross Martin and Dr Angus McIntyre of La Trobe University; and Dr Graham Little, of Melbourne University. Dr Epstein and Dr McIntyre also had the dubious pleasure of putting up with me as a houseguest for weeks at a time, in Melbourne. Carol Treloar and Ruth Dewar were similarly generous with accommodation in Melbourne and Adelaide, as were Harry and June Cohen and George and Glen Browne in Perth, Sandra Alexander and Nick Herd in Sydney, and Mark Pierce in Tel Aviv. I thank also Margaret and Harry Leece for accommodation in Paris, and Kelvin Widdows for accommodation in Geneva. Travelling costs for this book were large: the hospitality of these people, most of whom had never met me before I arrived on their doorsteps, was of great help in keeping my expenses down. H. E. David Goss and Ann Goss from the Australian embassy, Tel Aviv, and Jim Shea, from the US embassy, Tel Aviv, were kind to me beyond the bounds of diplomacy. I wish to thank also staff of the ILO, especially John Simonds, who arranged my program there, and staff of Histadrut, especially Ephraim Bar-Schmuel, for arranging my program and taking me on a tour of Israel.

I could not have begun this book had it not been for the Literature Board of the Australia Council: it provided me with a two-year senior writer’s grant to live on while I was researching. My publisher, Morry Schwartz, gave me a handsome advance to meet travelling costs.

The book could not have been brought to conclusion without the help of three women: Tess van Sommers, my psychological companion, who, as ever, advised and encouraged me; Elizabeth Douglas, who edited the manuscript with great care; and Jan Bourke, who typed it beautifully. I thank them all. I am grateful, too, to Jean Sinclair, the personal assistant of R. J. Hawke, for spending so much time in passing messages to him from me, and in finding research material; and to John Ducker for reading the manuscript.

My mentor and friend, Peter Ryan, of Melbourne University Press, also read the manuscript for me when he was very busy, and when I had reached a stage of exhaustion and despondency. There was great pressure of time in producing the book: chapter by chapter, in the later stages, it was edited and marked up as it was written. This speedy delivery caused in me a sort of post-natal depression during the fortnight’s break between finishing writing and waiting for typesetting to begin, and I was overcome with doubts. Peter Ryan’s encouragement arrived like a basket of flowers in winter.

Finally, I thank my husband, Tony Pratt, for his patience, and my son, Louis Pratt, who, for a nine-year-old, takes great care of his mother.

May 1982, Canberra