Sir David Butler looking back at The Canberra Model

ANU has posted a 40 minute slab of interview with Sir David Butler 40 years after his book “The Canberra Model” attempted to explain our system of power and Government:

Professor John Uhr sits down with Sir David Butler to discuss his 1973 book, The Canberra Model, and David’s history with Australia and Canberra.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Sir David Butler’s pioneering book The Canberra Model on Australian politics and government.

David Butler is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He was knighted in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to political science. Butler was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in 1993.