'The Fog on the Hill' is an honest appraisal of the systemic and specific failings of sixteen years of successive Labor governments but goes further to provide a valuable insight into the changing political landscape in Australia. Sartor's work is based on more than just intuitive reasoning, but on well-articulated case studies showing how key issues have been mismanaged. Always examining these things through the political prism of democratic government, and what is politically possible, importantly he offers clear-sighted analysis and powerful suggestions for the future.