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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Liberal
		Liberals are in favour of a pluralist system in which differing political and social views, even extreme or fringe views, compete for political power on a democratic basis and have the opportunity to achieve power through periodically held elections.
		Liberals in Europe are generally hostile to any attempts by the state to enforce equality in employment by legal action against employers, whereas in the United States many liberals favor such affirmative action.
		Liberal conservatism is a hybrid of economic liberalism and conservative social philosophy.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Liberal (9360 words)

	Liberalism in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberalism in Australia has been notably lacking in a coherent philosophical underpinning: it is strongly pragmatic, rather than ideological, defined chiefly in antithesis to Labor.
		Previous Liberal party governments, especially under pressure from the Country Party to safeguard its agricultural base, have been interventionist to varying degrees; but the current climate is very much in favour of deregulation and supply-side economics.
		The kind of liberals in Australia who support legal gun ownership are those who hold onto classical liberal and libertarian views who are strongly supportive of all forms of legal gun onwership and oppose the 1996 and 2002 gun laws.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism_in_Australia (1306 words)

	Liberalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Liberalism can be understood as (1) a political tradition (2) a political philosophy and (3) a general philosophical theory, encompassing a theory of value, a conception of the person and a moral theory as well as a political philosophy.
		Those who insist that liberalism is ultimately a nihilistic theory can be interpreted as arguing that this transition cannot be made successfully: liberals, on their view, are stuck with a subjectivistic or pluralistic theory of value, and no account of the right emerges from it.
		Prominent liberals have recently shied away from the conception of liberalism as a comprehensive philosophy, and have sought to return to its roots: as a purely political doctrine.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/liberalism (4691 words)

	40 Years of Australian Foreign Policy - Democracy, Liberalism and Australia's National Interests
		Australia is a stable, independent and welcoming nation, with an open and prosperous economy, and a pluralistic and democratic society - in fact one of the world's oldest continuous democracies.
		Australia's tradition of loyalty to the principles of freedom in the world - be they political, economic, social or intellectual - has remained one of the strongest influences on our active foreign policy over the past forty years.
		Liberal democracy is the soundest basis for peace and prosperity.
	www.foreignminister.gov.au /speeches/2006/060711_40years.html (2129 words)

	Liberalism [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although liberalism is, first and foremost, a political philosophy, `liberal' has come to be employed to describe a group of comprehensive philosophies (Rawls, 1993), including a theories of ethics, value, the person and knowledge.
		This cautious, fallibilistic, liberalism is less apt to be militantly secular than tolerant of religion; it is more likely to stress the incremental and experimental nature of social policy than to advocate grand social reconstructions.
		What has become known as the `communitarian critique of liberalism' has insisted that this is implausible --- people are `constituted' by their ends or values, and they cannot abstract from these particular ends and social commitments to deliberate on matters of justice from a `disembodied' perspective.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a391351671b27.htm (5350 words)

	Books: 'A Short History of Australian Liberalism", by Gregory Melleuish - 10 February, 2001
		Unlike the liberalism of Europe which developed a deep seated antagonism towards the monarchical and clerical nature of the ancien regime, Australian liberalism developed within the context of British colonial culture, with respect shown towards the monarchy and the Mother Country in general.
		While radical liberal republicans and free traders promoted their ideas in the mid to late 19th Century, by the time of Federation in 1901 liberalism had adapted itself to the mostly pro-British, pro-monarchist culture of the British Empire.
		Like the liberal élites of 1901, today's educated, affluent, urban élite favours undemocratic forums to pursue its goals, such as UN agencies or the various unelected human rights committees which have replaced Parliament as the means by which social change can be carried out.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2001feb10_books1.html (1113 words)

	Economic Liberalism in Australia
		Australia's return to higher productivity in the 1990s was driven by removal of barriers that had been stopping world's best practices.
		It has been suggested that Australia's perceived 'miracle' economic performance has been a myth (as shown by stagnating export performance) and that the failure to continue liberal-market reform initiatives is largely to blame [1] - though at the same time other observers saw evidence of excellent export performance [1, 2, 3].
		Though constructive economic changes took place in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s, the rate of change was slower that many other countries achieved (perhaps because, in Australia, leadership in economy-wide change was seen as the role of government with too little complementary economy-wide leadership in the community).
	cpds.apana.org.au /Teams/Articles/liberal_economics.htm (3367 words)

	Free Essay Liberalism
		According to Webster’s Dictionary, liberalism is defined as “favorable to progress or reform and protection of civil liberties, as in political and religious affairs.” It is clear that Chris Holt, a Political Science teacher of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, holds these same views.
		Liberals are opposed to government-enforced limits on free expression; this, the First Amendment of the US Constitution, is the issue on which they come closest to taking an absolutist line.
		The constant criticism of liberalism is that liberals are often accused of being wishy-washy, of sitting on the fence, refusing to accept that the world can be viewed in fl and white.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27898 (612 words)

	Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other liberals, including Friedrich August von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ludwig von Mises, argued that the great depression was not a result of "laissez-faire" capitalism but a result of too much government intervention and regulation upon the market.
		A response to these claims is that liberal states tend to be wealthier than less free states, that the poor in liberal states are better off than the average citizen in non-liberal states, and that inequality is a necessary spur to the hard work that produces prosperity.
		Liberalism also emphasizes equality of opportunity, and not equality of outcome, citing the desire for a meritocracy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism (9912 words)

	The state, capital and electricity privatisation in Australia
		Thompson’s comments point to one of the central, but least understood, contradictions of neo-liberalism: that a system which is justified on the premise of a withdrawal of state intervention in the economy has entailed an active role for the state in its implementation and maintenance.
		The big users of electricity in Australia — aluminium, cement, paper and glass — were the consumers that gained most from the reform process during the 1990s before NEM prices began to escalate (Mitchell, 2002: 54).
		Australia, for example, had a far less comprehensive welfare state system than did Britain or Sweden, with the wages system serving as the primary vehicle for redistribution, and can thus be described as a 'residual' welfare system (see Castles, 1985).
	homepage.mac.com /herinst/sbeder/jape.html (5768 words)

	liberalism — Infoplease.com
		Liberal party, U.S. political party - Liberal party, in U.S. history, political party formed in 1944 in New York City by a group of...
		Liberal party, former British political party - Liberal party, former British political party, the dominant political party in Great Britain for...
		Liber - Liber, in Roman religion, god of fertility and wine.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0829664.html (267 words)

	Cultural Liberalism in Australia - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Arguing that the tradition is central to the Australian experience of modernity, Gregory Melleuish traces the impact of cultural liberalism from its emergence around the time of Federation to its demise during the 1960s.
		Part collective biography, part intellectual and cultural history, the book describes the development of cultural liberalism, founded on rationalism and humanism, by university-educated intellectuals.
		• At a time of re-evaluation of liberalism in Australia, this book provides a framework in which these debates can be placed.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521474442 (276 words)

	Wakefield Press – The (Strange, Recent but Understandable) Triumph of Liberalism in Australia
		Today its political axis has shifted to make it one of the world’s leading liberal countries, enjoying unparalleled prosperity.
		It also locates the daily struggles of political life in Australia within global ideologies and economics.
		Bob Catley is a former Labor member of the House of Representatives and a one-time advisor to the Hawke government.
	www.wakefieldpress.com.au /books/strangerecentbut.html (145 words)

	Amazon.com: Liberalism in Australia: Books: Ian Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This new study examines liberal political thought in Australia.
		It explores the work of ten prominent thinkers--Charles Pearson, Vida Goldstein, Walter Murdoch, William Charles Wentworth, Henry Bournes Higgins, Robert Menzies, Sara Dowse, Alfred Deakin, H. Coombs, and Hohn Hewson.
		Australia can be your Ringtone in 3 Easy Steps!
	www.amazon.com /Liberalism-Australia-Ian-Cook/dp/0195537025 (491 words)

	liberalism: Bibliography
		The other velvet revolution: continental liberalism and its discontents.
		(the quiet decline of liberal influences in post-World War......
		Trilling's James: Liberalism and Selfhood in "The Princess Casamassima".
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0867974.html (130 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95011413
		Publisher description for Cultural liberalism in Australia : a study in intellectual and cultural history / Gregory Melleuish.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Australia Civilization, Liberalism Australia History
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam027/95011413.html (191 words)

	Australia New Zealand Unitarian Association – www
		Each of these sites have quality links that are updated often so use these as your starting point in your exploration of UUism and religious liberalism in Australia and throughout the world.
		The Church of the Larger Fellowship is a congregation of religious liberals and other individuals who live throughout the world.
		functions as a “virtual church or fellowship” providing congregational services and resources primarily to religious liberals who live in isolated parts of the world or in communities where no established religious liberal group exists.
	www.anzua.org /brisbane/Useful_Links.htm (470 words)

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