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Race Mathews on back-bench biography.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 893 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Race Mathews on back-bench biography.(Ken Fry, member of the House of Representatives)(Biography)

Article Excerpt
Memoirs by one-time Labor ministers have become two-a-penny, but those of backbench MPs remain relatively rare and thereby the more interesting. Those of Ken Fry--MHR for Fraser in the ACT 1974 to 1984--have special significance, consequent on his having been qualified by ability and perhaps ambition for a portfolio that failed to eventuate. The book offers more numerous hints as to why this should have been so than the author may have fully appreciated.

MPs are popularly supposed to operate in a lather of ambition. The reality is that only a minority ever see themselves as carrying the proverbial marshal's baton of ministerial office in their knapsacks. Life on the backbench offers greater opportunities for job satisfaction than is commonly thought, and what matters for most MPs is less rising above them than...



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