The progressive conservatism of Alexander Downer: the meta-narrative of resistance, family heritage and Edmund Burke
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101058
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ISBN: 9781925138597
Abstract
When W. K. Hancock wrote in his groundbreaking Australia in 1930 that Labor had assumed in Australian life the mantle of the party of progress and the non-Labor parties the parties of resistance he identified what would evolve into an enduring meta-narrative in Australian politics.
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ARC/DP140100246
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Publication Details
Brown, P. (2015). The progressive conservatism of Alexander Downer: the meta-narrative of resistance, family heritage and Edmund Burke. In G. C. Melleuish (Eds.), Liberalism and Conservatism (pp. 97-120). Ballarat: Connor Court.