Labor In Power (1993)

59m
Running Time

1
Seasons

5
Episodes

June 8, 1993
Release Date

TV
IMDb ratings
8.6
Labor In Power

Labor In Power (1993)

59m
Running Time

1
Seasons

5
Episodes

June 8, 1993
Release Date

External Links & Social Media
Network & Production Companies
ABC

Plot.

The history of the Labor Party in government in Australia from 1983 to 1993 under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. The series is told entirely through the eyes of all the major players in government and the bureaucracy, including Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

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Cast & Crew.

Kathy Bowlen

Kathy Bowlen

Narrator (voice)

Philip Chubb

Philip Chubb

Creator / Writer

Bob Hawke

Bob Hawke

Self

Virginia Moncrieff

Virginia Moncrieff

Producer

Sue Spencer

Sue Spencer

Producer / Director

Paul Keating

Paul Keating

Self

Paul Williams

Paul Williams

Executive Producer

Graham Richardson

Graham Richardson

Self

Details.

Release Date
June 8, 1993

Status
Ended

Seasons
1

Episodes
5

Running Time
59m

Genres

Last updated:

This TV Show Is About.

australia
politics
Miniseries

Wiki.

Labor in Power is a 1993 Australian documentary series about the first ten years of Labor's Hawke-Keating government produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was divided into five one-hour episodes and originally broadcast from 8 June to 6 July 1993.

In a decade of profound change, from 1983 to 1993, the ABC Television News and Current Affairs Political Documentary Unit compiled a unique series, capturing the key elements of the Australian Labour Party's ten-year rule. The battle between Bob Hawke and Paul Keating for the Labor Party leadership was one of the most divisive in Australian political history the seeds of which can be traced back as far as 1980. The series is an intensely personal examination of the Hawke-Keating relationship, and through more than 120 interviews with Cabinet Ministers, senior bureaucrats and staff advisers, the series offers an insider's view of who wields power in Australia, and how. The five episodes are; "Taking power", "Taxing times", "Conserving power", "The recession we had to have" and "The sweetest victory".

The documentary was filmed with the interviewees anticipating electoral defeat in the 1993 Australian federal election.

The final ten minutes of the last episode document the surprise result that returned the Keating government for a final term. The longest period the century-old Australian Labor Party spent in office was the 13-year Hawke-Keating government.

A long-running thread within the series is the secret Kirribilli Agreement of 1988 and the expectations it created. Episode 1 covers both the 1982 Australian Labor Party leadership spill and 1983 Australian Labor Party leadership spill which preceded the 1983 Australian federal election in which Labor came to power, and the following 1984 Australian federal election in which Labor's majority reduced. Episode 4 covers Early 1990s recession in Australia, and Episode 5 includes events of the Gulf War, reflections on the June 1991 Australian Labor Party leadership spill and December 1991 Australian Labor Party leadership spill, then the subsequent 1993 Australian federal election.

Although produced before the end of the period in which Labor was in power, producing long-format retrospectives on Australian Federal governments became an ironclad ABC tradition. Labor in Power was followed in subsequent decades by The Howard Years, The Killing Season and Nemesis, the ABC having learnt from Labor in Power in not producing such documentaries until after a government's defeat.

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