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Australian Books

For your own good

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

Liberty, Equality & Democracy Chris Berg

Connor Court, 2015, pp.206, $24.95, ISBN: 9781925138566

I grew up queer in Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland. Bjelke-Petersen was populist, racist, and religious: he hated socialism, but the Queensland of my youth also had Australia’s only free hospitals. You couldn’t get an abortion in one of them, though – that necessitated a quick trip south of the border, into New South Wales.

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Helen Darville is a writer. In her other life, she works for a classical liberal parliamentarian.

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