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Contents

Preface page ix

1 Australian Liberals 1 Names 1 The Moral Middle Class 7

2 Organisation and the Meaning of Fusion 13 Labor’s Challenge 13 The Meaning of Fusion 20 The Liberals’ Organisational Handicap 27

3 Protestants 35 Class, Religion and the Australian Party System 35 Fusion Again 40 Loyalty and World War I 44 Sectional Grievances 52

4 Good Citizens and Public Order 57 Service 57 Meetings 64 Order and Anarchy 69 Prime Minister Bruce 77

5 Honest Finance 86 War Bonds 86 Bonds of Honour 94 One Small Honest Man 100 The Menace of Inflation 108 The United Australia Party 112

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6 From Menzies’ Forgotten People to the Whitlam Generation 116 Robert Menzies and the Formation of the Liberal Party 116 Homes for Everyone 120 Contents Crown and Race 125 The Decline of Protestantism 128 From Duties to Rights 132 Keynesianism, Affluence and the Expansion of Credit 135 The New Middle Class 139 Whitlam 144

7 Fraser 148 The Dismissal 148 Shame Fraser Shame! 152 Fraser in Government 157

8 Neo-liberalism 166 Economic Rationalism and the New Public Management 168 From Citizens to Consumers 172 From Independence to Choice 176 John Hewson and the 1993 Election 179

9 John Howard, Race and Nation 183 For All of Us 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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