This is the first account of the Bannon years, indispensable because it's told by a former senior minister without hope or desire of reinstatement. It's a successful reformer's diary of some of the Bannon government's finest achievements - but also, a frustrated reformer's story of the consensus engineering and machine politics that have been kept under wraps by a skilfully-packaged administration over the last eight years. You'll learn for the first time from one of the key players of a clever ploy to move uranium mining legislation in through the back door; of curious stories about the drugs poll scandal; of vexatious exchanges between the South Australian Health Commission and Western Mining; of the fraught passage of legislation outlawing tobacco sponsorship. You'll also be able to read a sober, well-reasoned, impressive account of a decade of progress in SA's health system and services, told by a former minister who is driven by a passionabe desire to leave the world a more equal and compassionate place.