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...liberal constitution in the 1890s should have turned around and put into practice illiberal legislation such White Australia once that constitution had been implemented.

For much of the twentieth century it was difficult to see much in the way of liberalism in operation in Australia, even by those calling themselves liberals. In the early 1920s Stanley Bruce proclaimed the demise of Free Trade liberalism and in 1930 W.K. Hancock stated that the true political creed of Australians was the use of the state to further individual rights and interests.

Hancock divined that most Australians did not want the implementation of socialism but neither were they rugged individualists who spurned the public teat when it was offered. Australian political culture was strongly democratic but only...

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