It is sobering if not downright depressing to be reviewing two new books whose authors can be described as warriors for liberty. In Australia? Isn’t Australia the world’s poster child for freedom and individual liberty, nay larrikinism? Why does Australia – of all countries – need warriors to fight for freedoms that are the cornerstone of Western democracy? It is especially ironic for this writer, having escaped authoritarian communism when Hungary was under Soviet boots.
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