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A politics of duty.(Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard)(Book Review)
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard, by Judith Brett; Cambridge University Press, 2004, $37.95.
THERE HAW BEEN few studies of Australia's liberals and conservatives, nor of their leading political actors, so Judith Brett has done us all a favour with her account of Australia's Liberals, whom she describes as the "moral middle class". At least, members of this class were, for most of our first 100 years as a nation, the leaders, the policy makers, and the sources of liberalism's core values. That is her opinion.
Brett presents a number of major themes. There is the thesis that Australian liberalism and ...
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