There is a curious twist in the montage on the cover of Rodney Tiffen’s Disposable Leaders; a detailed treatise on unstable political leadership, resulting coups and consequent leadership changes. The cover is dominated by a fly-blown garbage bin, into which the heads of Australian political leaders, from Hawke to Abbott, representing both sides of the aisle, have been discarded.
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