Draft:Australian neoconservatism

Conservative radicals : Australian neoconservatism and its intellectual antecedents / Pamela Anne Stavropoulos

Characteristics

 * Support for democracy promotion and the spread of liberal values internationally. This is a result of a belief in liberal, and particularly US, hegemony as necessary to prevent a breakdown in the international order.
 * Particular focus on Chinese communism, and urgency reducing trade dependence
 * Pro-free market
 * Interventionist culturally, religiously, and socially
 * Focus on education

Influences

 * US-China rivalry and the resulting "economy-security paradox"

People
The following have been identified as exemplifying Australian neoconservatism in at least one area of their political beliefs, although none personally identify as such.


 * John Howard
 * Kevin Donnelly
 * Andrew Hastie
 * Rupert Murdoch

Publications

 * Robert Manne, writing for The Age in 2003, said that The Australian was the "country's first genuinely neoconservative newspaper"