Alex McDermott - Why Exactly Don't We Properly Celebrate Australian Federation?

My guest today is Alex McDermott who is a Melbourne-based historian, writer, and curator at the Robert Menzies Institute. He recently collaborated with Tony Abbott on his book "Australia: A History". Today we discuss:His recent article entitled "Forgetting Federation" about why the formal establishment of the Australian nation state is ignored Whether centre-right appear to have a negative view of federation and whether modern neo-liberalism might help explain thisMenzies' view of Federation and whether one can detect in his politics a one nation Disraelian conservatism as well as a Gladstonian classical liberalismThe parallels between the Federation era and our own.And much morehttps://quadrant.org.au/magazine/history/forgetting-federation/https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-mcdermott-000128309/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/alex-mcdermotthttps://substack.com/@alexmcdermott1?utm_source=top-search