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John Stuart Hendy

How I found out John Stuart Mill’s liberalism is in my DNA

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

My father died a few months ago. That was obviously a sad event for my family. However it marked the beginning of an interesting detective story that has proved quite a delight and has bizarrely taught me some things about the history of liberalism along the way. And being a Liberal party member of the federal parliament I find the coincidence that I will reveal below quite exciting.

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Peter Hendy, a former chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is a Liberal MP for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro.

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