We will soon be taking orders as normal. Thank you for your patience. If you would like to be notified when our cart is operating again—or if you would like to place an urgent order manually—please email orders.press@anu.edu.au. In the meantime, you can order hard copies through selected bookshops.
V M (Val) Barrett
V M (Val) Barrett is a former senior executive in the Australian Parliament and senior manager in the Legislative Assembly for the ACT. Her career of more than 30 years commenced as a Hansard reporter before the emergence of modern communications technology, and ended with management responsibilities across the whole range of non-procedural parliamentary support services. In 2015, she took up a research scholarship at The Australian National University to compare parliamentary administration in the UK and Australia. Her doctorate was awarded in 2020.

Parliament: A Question of Management »
Unavailable for purchase