This thesis identifies the rhetorical strategies by which the Menzies government reconciled acceptance of full employment, the welfare state and government intervention with a defence of liberalism. It argues that the Korean War offered the Menzies government an opportunity to reconstitute these key aspects of the postwar state as "liberal" rather than social democratic
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Submitted to the School of History, Heritage and Society of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2007
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 264-294)