Political ideas in the Liberal Party
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1973
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Tiver, Peter Graham
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The Liberal Party of Australia was founded in 1944, came to power in
1949 and governed, in coalition with the Country party, to the end of
1972. At the time of its formation, spokesmen within the new party
emphasised the importance of its basic ideas, drawing in this realm some
of the sharpest distinctions made between it and its immediate predecessor,
the United Australia party. Once the Liberal party was in office,
and especially after the mid-fifties, spokesmen referred less often to the
party’s basic philosophy; but it was nonetheless discernible as an underlying
set of assumptions in most of the arguments about current policy
within the party and between the Liberal and Labour parties. In the
forties, the Liberals had revived a scheme of non-Labour thought which
had been of considerable significance in Australian politics. Their
creed was fairly comprehensive and it may be conveniently summarised at
this point as a prelude to a survey of the conventional view of the
Liberal party and its ideas in the secondary literature and to a detailed
discussion of its themes in the main body of the thesis.
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