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Abbott Agonistes: year one for Australia’s prime minister / Kissel, Mary

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You know things aren’t going well for conservative Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott when the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in Melbourne, the country’s most prominent free-market think tank and formerly Abbott’s biggest cheerleader, takes out a full-page advertisement in the Australian newspaper to criticize him. Published on August 8th, the ad quotes Abbott from a speech he gave at the think tank two years earlier: “Freedom of speech is an essential foundation of democracy.” Then it continues: “We agree, Prime Minister. That’s why we will fight to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Even if you won’t.”

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ID: 115067

Adrift down under: the Labor Party abandons economic reform / Kissel, Mary

Kissel, Mary	Journal Article
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2012.

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John Winston Howard wasn't just voted out of office after a remarkably steady eleven-and-a-half-year stretch atop Australian politics in November 2007. He lost the prime minister's job to Kevin Rudd, a cheerless career bureaucrat with a skimpy parliamentary record, and lost his local seat to a toothy blond broadcaster with no political experience at all. Yet today the young and the old mob Howard when he wanders out in Sydney, wanting an autograph and a snap with the seventy-two-year-old. They realize that Australia's current leaders have veered the country away from the steady, prosperous path it was on for the past three decades, and in addition to feeling nostalgia for better days they want someone to steer their country back on track.

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Australia ; Liberal Democracy ; Economic Reform ; Labor Party ; Kevin Rudd ; Australian Politics

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ID: 095150

Liberals' voice in the wilderness / Kissel, Mary

Kissel, Mary	Journal Article
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2009.

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Australia ; Liberal Party ; John Howard ; Kevin Rudd ; Peter Costello

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ID: 108857

Neglected India: why is Washington ignoring the world's largest democracy / Kissel, Mary

Kissel, Mary	Journal Article
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2011.

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India ; Policymakers ; India - Relations - US ; US - Relations - India ; Iran - Democracy - 1941-1953

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