The progressive conservatism of Alexander Downer: the meta-narrative of resistance, family heritage and Edmund Burke
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posted on 2024-11-16, 05:40authored byPaul Brown
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.
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.