Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard

ISBN-13: 9780521536349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 274 str.

Judith Brett

Opis

Judith Brett, award-winning author and well-known Australian political scientist, provides the first complete history of the Australian liberal tradition, as well as of the Liberal Party from the second half of the twentieth century. The Liberal Party of Australia was late to form in 1945, but the traditions and ideals upon which it is founded have been central to Australian politics since federation.

Recenzje

'Judith Brett has a story to tell that is not only fascinating in itself, but at times almost spookily reminiscent of passes in the history of British parties in the twentieth century … an account of Australian party politics which breaks free of many of the crudities of political science and casts a flood of light on the relationship between rhetoric and morality in the politics of twentieth-century liberal democracies.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Organisation and the meaning of fusion; 3. Protestants; 4. Good citizens and public order; 5. Honest finance; 6. From Menzies' forgotten people to the Whitlam generation; 7. Fraser; 8. Neoliberalism; 9. John Howard, race and nation.