The third influence : the Blair government and Australian Labor
By: JOHNSON, Carol
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Contributor(s): TONKISS, Fran.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Subject(s): Política Externa | Cooperação Internacional | História | Inglaterra | AustráliaPolicy & Politics 30, 1, p. 5-18Abstract: Accounts of British Labour's third tend to leave out an important antecedent for Blair's new politics - the Australian Labor governments of 1983-96. In this article, we argue that labour governments in Australia and Britain have pursued similar strategies for melding neoliberalism with social democracy. Key failures of Australian Labor are instructive for thinking about the future of the New Labour project, while the progressive features of Labour politics in Australia offer a challenge to Third Way social conservatism. Most critically, the Australian offer a challenge to Third Way social conservatism. Most critically, the Australian experience indicates how parties of the right can regroup in the face of new-style labour governments
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Accounts of British Labour's third tend to leave out an important antecedent for Blair's new politics - the Australian Labor governments of 1983-96. In this article, we argue that labour governments in Australia and Britain have pursued similar strategies for melding neoliberalism with social democracy. Key failures of Australian Labor are instructive for thinking about the future of the New Labour project, while the progressive features of Labour politics in Australia offer a challenge to Third Way social conservatism. Most critically, the Australian offer a challenge to Third Way social conservatism. Most critically, the Australian experience indicates how parties of the right can regroup in the face of new-style labour governments
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