Australian Liberals And The Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin To John Howard

Author: Judith Brett

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  • : $44.95 AUD
  • : 9780521536349
  • : Cambridge University Press
  • : Cambridge University Press
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  • : August 2003
  • : 228mm X 152mm X 16mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : 2016
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Description

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. This 2003 book, by award-winning author and leading Australian political scientist Judith Brett, provides the very first complete history of the Australian liberal tradition, and then of the Liberal Party from the second half of the twentieth century. The book sparkles with insight, particularly in its sustained analysis of the shifting relationships between the experiences of the moral middle class and Australian liberals' own self understandings. It begins with Alfred Deakin facing the organised working class in parliament and ends with John Howard, electorally triumphant but alienated from key sections of middle class opinion. This book is destined to become the definitive account of Australian liberalism, and of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Author description

Judith Brett is the author of the highly acclaimed Menzies' Forgotten People, winner of the Arthur Phillips award for Australian Studies, Douglas Stewart award for non-fiction and Ernest Scott prize. Formerly the editor of Meanjin and Arena magazines, she has been teaching politics at La Trobe University since 1989.

Table of contents

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.