Joy Ardill discusses factional arrangements in the ALP including Tom Burns and the Old Guard and the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) who were an Old Guard union opposed to Jack Egerton.
David Williams talks about his working relations with different Ministers and dealing with changes to the structure of government departments. He comments on how public service executives can have to prove themselves to new Ministers. He describes the period of administrative transition after the Borbidge government came to office, and appointments to the boards of GOCs.
