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Book Review

Paul Davey, The Nationals: The Progressive, Country and National Party in New South Wales 1919 to 2006, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006. pp. xiv + 530. $49.50 cloth.

We need to find more ways to have sesquicentenary celebrations. At last count 21 titles, including this study of the National Party and its predecessors have been produced with assistance from the committee of the Sesquicentary of Responsible Government in New South Wales. Other titles in this reputable series are enhanced by Paul Davey's handsomely produced addition. Unlike many other political groups and parties in Australia, the National Party and its antecedents have not produced a large corpus of works. Considering its central role in mainstream politics it is surprising that even the Communist Party of Australia has attracted a greater amount of attention to every aspect of that movement. In terms of scope it extends our knowledge of conservative politics from Ulrich Ellis's 1958 and Don Aitkin's 1972 studies of the Country Party in New South Wales.

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