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Mark Peel

Mark Peel reviews ‘Ordinary People’s Politics: Australians talk about life, politics, and the future of their country’ by Judith Brett and Anthony Moran

November 2006, no. 286 01 November 2006
Of late there has been a good deal of agitated conversation about the political attitudes of ordinary Australians. As Judith Brett and Anthony Moran point out in this compelling new book, this has often taken the form of a ‘war of words within the political élites’, with the right using its supposed empathy for everyday people as a weapon against intellectuals, and the left blaming the defici ... (read more)