Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John HowardCambridge University Press, 6. nov. 2003 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. |
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| 13 | |
The Liberals Organisational Handicap | 27 |
Protestants | 35 |
Fusion Again | 40 |
Loyalty and World War I | 44 |
Sectional Grievances | 52 |
Keynesianism Affluence and the Expansion of Credit | 135 |
The New Middle Class | 139 |
Whitlam | 144 |
Fraser | 148 |
Shame Fraser Shame | 152 |
Fraser in Government | 157 |
Neoliberalism | 166 |
Economic Rationalism and the New Public Management | 168 |
Good Citizens and Public Order | 57 |
Meetings | 64 |
Order and Anarchy | 69 |
Prime Minister Bruce | 77 |
Honest Finance | 86 |
Bonds of Honour | 94 |
One Small Honest Man | 100 |
The Menace of Inflation | 108 |
The United Australia Party | 112 |
From Menzies Forgotten People to the Whitlam Generation | 116 |
Homes for Everyone | 120 |
Crown and Race | 125 |
The Decline of Protestantism | 128 |
From Duties to Rights | 132 |
From Citizens to Consumers | 172 |
From Independence to Choice | 176 |
John Hewson and the 1993 Election | 179 |
John Howard Race and Nation | 183 |
Pauline Hanson | 191 |
Asian Immigration and Multiculturalism | 194 |
Indigenous Politics and the Limits of Liberalism | 196 |
Claiming the Australian Legend | 202 |
Border Control | 206 |
Conclusion | 213 |
Notes | 218 |
Bibliography | 239 |
Index | 252 |
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Stran 10 - ... realizes that human beings and human affairs may drift strongly towards evil as well as good. He even hints that the service of philanthropists and reformers is much greater in preventing relapse than in assisting progress. Good government, in fact, (Mill argues) depends most of all on the personal "qualities of the human beings composing the society over which the government is exercised.
Stran 120 - It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race.
Stran 198 - I feel deep sorrow for those of my fellow Australians who suffered injustices under the practices of past generations towards indigenous people.
Stran 129 - It seems certain that the activities of this small group are largely directed from outside the Labor movement. The Melbourne "News Weekly" appears to act as their organ.
Stran 5 - Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the Socialist panacea.
Stran 59 - England as a country, derive their origin remotely from the cause already described ; but the immediate object of the present work is to show how intimate is the connection which exists between the women of England, and the moral character maintained by their country in the scale of nations.
Stran 8 - But if we are to talk of classes, then the time has come to say something of the forgotten class — the middle class — those people who are constantly in danger of being ground between the upper and the nether millstones of the false class war; the middle class who, properly regarded, represent the backbone of this country.
Stran 65 - In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.