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liberalism
Books & arts
Marinating in liberalism
Peter Mares
6 July 2024
Can this philosophical tradition offer a blueprint for a just society?
National affairs
Dazzled on the Danube
Peter Browne
7 June 2023
What was Greg Sheridan doing in Budapest?
National affairs
The long Liberal split
Norman Abjorensen
8 February 2017
This week’s events underline the fact that Liberals are still struggling with the question of how they can be more than simply an anti-Labor party
Essays & reportage
Learning to think at Oxford
Margaret Simons
23 March 2015
“There was nothing before Oxford, really,” says Malcolm Fraser in this extract from his political memoirs, written with
Margaret Simons
Books & arts
The contradictions of liberal multiculturalism
Janna Thompson
5 November 2014
How we should accommodate and respect the values of people who aren’t like us? A new book has some of the answers, writes
Janna Thompson
National affairs
Wrong man, wrong place
Geoffrey Barker
1 December 2009
The turmoil will continue, writes
Geoffrey Barker
, and meanwhile the small “l” liberals are missing in action
National affairs
The split
Geoffrey Barker
27 November 2009
This could be the end of the Liberal Party as we know it, argues
Geoffrey Barker
National affairs
What is a liberal?
Geoffrey Barker
17 November 2009
Geoffrey Barker
dissects George Brandis’s defence of liberalism in the face of his party’s dalliance with conservatism
National affairs
Crushed? Angry? Resentful?
Norman Abjorensen
11 August 2009
The eventful lives and uneventful memoirs of George Reid and Ned Hogan show that politics and self-reflection don’t always go together. Will John Howard follow their…
National affairs
Climate’s challenge to liberalism
David West
20 May 2009
Tolerance, freedom and democracy can only survive if core elements of the liberal tradition are transformed, writes
David West
National affairs
The early demise of social liberalism
Norman Abjorensen
13 January 2009
The year 1909 saw a seachange in Australian politics, writes
Norman Abjorensen
on the anniversary of the fusion of the non-Labor parties