Abbott's Right. The Conservative Tradition From Menzies To Abbott

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 204 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Tony Abbott may have been a Rhodes Scholar, but some commentators are convinced that he offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Abbotts Right challenges this perception, and presents Abbott as someone who rejoices in the political battle of ideas. It looks at how the contemporary conservative voice that Abbott champions was fashioned by Sir Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser and John Howard, and reflects on what it means to be conservative in modern Australia. It argues that the Liberal Party should return to its conservative roots as a centre-right party and signals how, as such, it might address the public policy challenges in the years ahead. Tony Abbott responds to Freemans analysis in an afterword, and sets it in the context of the questions that Donald Trumps ascendancy poses for conservatives and Labor alike."

ISBN: 9780522871883