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A companionable browse: more than the usual suspects.(The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics)(Book review)

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| December 01, 2007 | Coleman, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BEFORE YOU LEAP to the conclusion that this new Oxford Companion to Australian Politics will be, like some other Oxford Companions, contaminated by a soft leftism, you should know that I am one of the contributors. I may be only one of more than 200 contributors, with only three entries out of 400 (Political cartoonists; Political journalists; and Political correctness). But I am not the only one with some conservative deviationism in my CV.

The editors acknowledge that John Nethercote of the Menzies Research Centre (who did the entry on Conservatism) played "a major role in helping shape the project". Other contributors include John Roskam (Liberal democracy) ...

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