Jeremy Moon is Professor and Director, International Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School. Campbell Sharman is in the Political Science Department, University of British Columbia.

'… offers an interesting slant on comparative Australian politics … Each chapter is elegantly written and carefully edited. There is abundant additional information in the form of graphs and tables and also an extremely useful bibliography. It is a study I would recommend to students as a good groundwork introduction to the comparative study of the Australian political scene and one which also provides important source of information.' Cercles

• 1. Introduction Campbell Sharman and Jeremy Moon; 2. The Commonwealth Patrick Weller and Jenny Fleming; 3. New South Wales Rodney Smith; 4. Queensland John Wanna; 5. South Australia Andrew Parkin; 6. Tasmania Aynlsey Kellow; 7. Victoria Nicholas Economou and Brian Costar; 8. Western Australia Jeremy Moon and Campbell Sharman; 9. Australian Capital Territory John Warhurst; 10. Northern Territory Dean Jaensch; 11. One System or Nine? Campbell Sharman and Jeremy Moon.