The Times Will Suit Them: Postmodern Conservatism in Australia is a 2008 book by the academics Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe. The book argues that for more than a decade Prime Minister John Howard took advantage of international crises and local anxieties to stay in government and significantly reshape Australian public life. The authors outline a theory that despite its conservative background the Howard government was postmodernist, skeptical of organised politics and committed to policies based on a relative assessment of Australian cultural values rather than more universal international ideals.[1] These characteristics, casting the government in a "radical conservative" mould, are presented as an explanation for the government's electoral success.[2]
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| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Publication date | October 2008 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781741756241 |
| 320.994 22 | |
| LC Class | JC573.2.A8 B68 2008 |
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edit- ^ "Conservative Sociology". ABC Radio National:Counterpoint. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 December 2008. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
- ^ Rose, Kate (24 November 2008). "John Howard's Time as Prime Minister Not Forgotten". The Herald Sun. Herald and Weekly Times. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
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