Judith Brett

Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (eBook, PDF)

From Alfred Deakin to John Howard

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511059285
• Artikelnr.: 56691220

Autorenporträt

Judith Brett is emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University and one of Australia's leading political thinkers. A former editor of Meanjin and columnist for The Age, she won the National Biography Award in 2018 for The Enigmatic Mr Deakin. She is the author of four Quarterly Essays: Relaxed and Comfortable, Exit Right, Fair Share and The Coal Curse. Her other books include From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class.

Inhaltsangabe

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.