澳大利亚New Right是什么

澳大利亚New Right是什么

AustraliaIn Australia the "New Right" refers to a late 1970s/1980s onward movement both within and outside of the Liberal/National Coalition which advocates economically liberal and increased socially conservative policies (as opposed to the "old right" which advocated economically conservative policies and small-l liberals with more socially liberal views).Unlike the United Kingdom and United States,but like neighbouring New Zealand,the 1980s saw the Australian Labour Party initiate Third Way economic reforms,which bear some familiarity to "New Right" ideology.After the John Howard Coalition defeated 13-year Labour government at the 1996 federal election,economic reforms were taken further,some examples being wholesale labour market deregulation (e.g.WorkChoices),the introduction of a Goods and Services Tax (GST),the privatisation of the telecommunications monopoly Telstra,and sweeping welfare reform including "work for the dole".The H.R.Nicholls Society,a think tank which advocates full workplace deregulation,contains some Liberal MPs as members and is seen to be of the New Right.
Economic liberalism,also called Economic Rationalism in Australia,was first used by Labour's Gough Whitlam.[2] It is a philosophy which tends to advocate a free market economy,increased deregulation,privatisation,lower direct taxation and higher indirect taxation,and a reduction of the size of the Welfare State.The politicians favouring New Right ideology were referred to as "dries",while those advocating continuation of the economic policies of the post-war consensus,typically Keynesian economics,or were more socially liberal,were called "wets" (the term "wets" was similarly used in Britain to refer to those Conservatives who opposed Thatcherite economic policies,but "dries" in this context was much rarer in British usage).