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The Australian Liberal Party: Volume 2: Policy Challenges and the Global Context book cover

1st Edition

The Australian Liberal Party Volume 2: Policy Challenges and the Global Context

Edited By Zareh Ghazarian, Marija Taflaga, Matteo Bonotti Copyright 2026
208 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this second volume of Ghazarian, Taflaga and Bonotti’s two-part collection, the editors examine the importance of political parties and how they impact local, national, and international contexts by assembling a range of experts to analyse the Liberal Party in Australia, both historically and in contemporary times. The book explores the public policy, organisational, and electoral challenges... Read more

Introduction

 

1. Total Control: The Liberal Party and Asylum Seekers

Amy Nethery

 

2. The Role and Impact of Religion in the Liberal Party in 21st Century Australia

Elenie Poulos and Marion Maddox

 

3. Economic Policy of the Liberal Party of Australia

Alan Fenna

 

4. Do the Liberals have a ‘Woman Problem’?

Blair Williams

 

5. Anything But Reduce Emissions: The Australian Liberal Party’s Climate Policy

Kate Crowley

 

6. Realist or Neoconservative? The Liberal Party’s Evolving Foreign Policy

Rémy Davison

 

7. Crashing the party? Independent challengers to the Liberal Party

Phoebe L.V. Hayman

 

8. Are Millennials and Gen Z Voters Endangering the Australian Liberal Party?  

Intifar Chowdhury

 

9. ‘Locked in 1954 Mode’: The Liberal Party and the Monarchy 

Benjamin T. Jones

 

10. Party Dispositions Versus Indigenous Aspirations: A Liberal Party Policy Dilemma

James Walter

 

11. A Certain Idea of Britain: The Liberal Party of Australia, the United Kingdom and the Anglosphere

 

Ben Wellings and Tom Howe

 

 

12. Economic Class and the Electoral Future: Comparing the Australian Liberal Party and the US Republican Party

David T. Smith

 

13. Comparing Centre-Right Parties: The Conservative Party of Canada and the Liberal Party of Australia

Peter Van Onselen and Scott Ryan

Biography

Zareh Ghazarian is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University, Australia. He has published widely in the field of Australian politics and is a leading commentator in national and international media. His teaching and research interests include political parties, public policy, political knowledge, and civics and citizenship education.

Marija Taflaga is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations and the Director of the Center for the Study of Australian Politics. She researches Australian politics in comparison with other Westminster nations and also undertakes research in Australian political history.

Matteo Bonotti is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University, Australia. His research interests include democratic theory, political liberalism and public reason, linguistic justice, free speech and civility, and food justice.

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