Geoffrey Robinson is a senior lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia.

• 1.Liberal conservatism as the mind of the master class 2. Cold war liberalism against itself: Peter Coleman from intellectual to politician 3. Ideas have consequences: Peter Coleman as politician 4. Peter Coleman and the Australian neoconservative persuasion 5. Liberalism in the house of government: David Kemp and Andrew Norton 6. David Kemp and Gregory Melleuish: The use and abuse of liberal history 7. The loneliness of the Liberal feminist: Louise Asher and Margaret Fitzherbert 8. Flight of the phoenix: liberal conservatism and political capitalism

Geoffrey Robinson is a senior lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia.

• 1.Liberal conservatism as the mind of the master class 2. Cold war liberalism against itself: Peter Coleman from intellectual to politician 3. Ideas have consequences: Peter Coleman as politician 4. Peter Coleman and the Australian neoconservative persuasion 5. Liberalism in the house of government: David Kemp and Andrew Norton 6. David Kemp and Gregory Melleuish: The use and abuse of liberal history 7. The loneliness of the Liberal feminist: Louise Asher and Margaret Fitzherbert 8. Flight of the phoenix: liberal conservatism and political capitalism

Geoffrey Robinson is a senior lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia.

• 1.Liberal conservatism as the mind of the master class 2. Cold war liberalism against itself: Peter Coleman from intellectual to politician 3. Ideas have consequences: Peter Coleman as politician 4. Peter Coleman and the Australian neoconservative persuasion 5. Liberalism in the house of government: David Kemp and Andrew Norton 6. David Kemp and Gregory Melleuish: The use and abuse of liberal history 7. The loneliness of the Liberal feminist: Louise Asher and Margaret Fitzherbert 8. Flight of the phoenix: liberal conservatism and political capitalism