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What’s Right? The future of conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37) by Waleed Aly

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May 2010, no. 321

What’s Right? The future of conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37) by Waleed Aly

Black Inc. $19.95 pb, 142 pp

What’s Right? The future of conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37) by Waleed Aly

by
May 2010, no. 321

In the latest edition of Quarterly Essay, entitled What’s Right?, Monash University academic Waleed Aly argues that right-wing politics has lost its way in the twenty-first century. Aly’s engaging and sophisticated analysis will appeal to readers from around the political spectrum.    Aly begins by arguing that the terms ‘Left and Right are the hallmark of a political conversation that is obsessed with teams …’ Such a ‘conversation’ is unhelpful, for many reasons. ‘Team Right’ is hardly homogeneous, and many of its members have, in recent decades, abandoned traditional conservatism. Aly supports this point by citing the Bush administration’s distinctly ‘un-conservative’ decision to invade Iraq, and the implementation of the controversial WorkChoices laws by John Howard’s government. Aly contends that such endeavours are by-products of neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism.

What’s Right? The future of conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37)

What’s Right? The future of conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37)

by Waleed Aly

Black Inc. $19.95 pb, 142 pp

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