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Australia, the great liberal project

24 September 2019

12:04 PM

24 September 2019

12:04 PM

The great Australian historian John Hirst once told of a visiting American academic who commented that despite the Labor Party being in power for so few years since federation, the library shelves were full of books about Labor and the labour movement. Books about liberalism and liberal parties, on the other hand, were hard to find.

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