Accepting the Edmund Burke Award in November 2016, John Howard paid homage to the eighteenth century Anglo-Irish statesman, remarking that “the legacy of Burke is a precious one”. Close to both the champion of free trade Adam Smith and the Evangelical humanitarian William Wilberforce, Edmund Burke (1730-1797) represented a standard-bearer for the Whig tradition of British liberalism that took root in Australian soil.
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