Australian Liberalism


These Australian Liberal materials, now including a discussion group on Australian Liberalism - are provided by Victor Perton MP.   
Please tell us what you think of the page and suggest any changes you'd like to see.

'We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments,
in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.
'

Robert Menzies in Afternoon Light, 1967

 

"Liberals are people prepared to listen with open minds to new ideas with a philosophy that seeks
always to enable every person to achieve their own potential, whatever that may be."

Dr Brendan Nelson

Australian Liberalism: The Continuing Vision.  This web-site is built with essays originally collected in a booklet edited by Thompson, Brandis & Harley, A Liberal Forum Publication, 1986. Additional material is constantly being added to the site and we would be grateful for your ideas on other significant contributions to Australian liberalism.

Liberalism 1990 -2000 This is a collection of speeches and essays. Again, we would appreciate any additional material.

Options - A Liberal Magazine Published by Christopher Pyne

Liberals Looking to the 21st Century.

Liberalism for the 21st Century - let us know what you think.

The Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

Canberra Liberals

Liberal Party in NSW
New South Wales Young Liberals (an exuberant Liberal website)

Queensland Liberal Party (lively Liberal website)
    Griffiths University Liberal Club (Queensland)

Liberal Party in South Australia
    South Australian Young Liberals

Liberal Party in Tasmania

Liberal Party in Victoria
    Victorian Young Liberals

       Marondah Young Liberals
       Noble Park Young Liberals
        Wheelers Hill Yong Liberals

Liberal Party in Western Australia

Country Liberal Party (Northern Territory)

Recommended Books & Writings:

Aichison, R, Looking at the Liberals, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1974.

Ayres, P., Malcolm Fraser A Biography, Heinemann, Richmond, 1987.

Brandis, G., Harley, T., & Markwell, D., Liberals Face the Future : Essays on Australian Liberalism, Oxford, Melbourne 1984.

Bunting, J., RG Menzies A Portrait, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1988.

Carey, J. & McCrae, T., Peacock MP, Rigby, Adelaide, 1982.

Cramer, J., Pioneers, Politics and People A Political Memoir, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989.

Cumpston, I., Lord Bruce of Melbourne, Longmans Cheshire, Melbourne, 1989.

Downer, A., Six Prime Ministers, Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1982.

Edwards, C., Bruce of Melbourne Man of Two Worlds, Heinemann, London, 1965.

Edwards, J., Life wasn't Meant to be Easy A Political Profile of Malcolm Fraser, Mayhem, Sydney, 1977.

Eggleston, F., Reflections of an Australian Liberal, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1953.

Hazlehurst, C., Menzies Observed, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1979.

Herman, Anton., Alan Missen: Liberal Pilgrim, The Poplar Press, 1993.

Holt, E., Politics is People The Men of the Menzies Era, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1969.

Horstall, J., The Liberal Era A Political and Economic Analysis, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1974.

Howard, F., Kent Hughes A Biography, MacMillan, Melbourne, 1972.

Howson, P., The Howson Diaries The Life of Politics, Viking, Melbourne, 1972.

Jaensch, D & Bullock, J., Liberals in Limbo, Drummond, Melbourne, 1978.

Joske P., Sir Robert Menzies 1894-1978 A New Informal Memoir, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1978.

Killen, J., Killen Inside Australian Politics, Methuen Haynes, North Ryde, 1985.

La Nauze, J., Alfred Deakin A Biography, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1965.

Marr, D., Barwick, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1980.

Menzies, R., The Forgotten People and Other Studies in Democracy, Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1943.

Menzies, R., Speech is of Time Selected Speeches and Writing, Cassell, London, 1958.

Menzies, R., Central Power in the Australian Commonwealth, Cassell, London, 1967.

Menzies, R., Afternoon Light, Penguin, Ringwood, 1969.

Menzies, R., The Measure of the Years, Cassell, Melbourne, 1970.

Perkins, K., Menzies Last of the Queen's Men, Rigby, Adelaide, 1977.

Puplick, C., & Southey, R., Liberal Thinking, MacMillan, Melbourne, 1980.

C J Puplick & R J Southey, Liberal Thinking, MacMillan, 1980.

Reid, A., The Power Struggle, Shakespeare Head, Sydney, 1969.

Reid, A., The Gorton Experiment, Shakespeare Head, Sydney, 1971.

Schneider, R., The Colt From Kooyong, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1981.

Simms, M., A Liberal Nation, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1982.

Starr, G., The Liberal Party of Australia A Documentary History, Drummond, Melbourne, 1980.

Thomson, Y. and others (ed), Australian Liberalism: The Continuing Vision, Liberal Forum, Melbourne, 1986.

Tiver, P., The Liberal Party Principles and Performance, Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1978.

Weller, P., Malcolm Fraser A Study in Ministerial Power, Penguin, Ringwood, 1989.

West, K., Power in the Liberal Party, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965.

White, D., The Philosophy of the Australian Liberal Party, Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1978.

Subscribe to Australian_Liberalism

Powered by www.egroups.com

homepag.jpg (2672 bytes)
  Victor Perton's Home Page  Write to Victor Perton. Back to

         

 

Updated 23rd of July, 2001