Burke did not oppose liberty; he just had a different view on how it was best realised. Liberty based on centuries of evolution of the common law and social norms was superior to the abstract French Rights of Man.
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57th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 8th November 2022. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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56th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 20th September 2022. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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In the 1930s in Italy, an imprisoned Communist, Antonia Gramsci, was writing his “prison papers” opining that the dismantling the key cultural institutions, including the family, was necessary before Communism could take hold. Rudi Dutschke, a German Neo-Marxist in the late 1960s, followed on with this theme declaring that revolution would not succeed by violent over-throw, but by subverting society through “a long march through the institutions of power;” education, media, civil service, and judiciary.
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Australians largely take their freedoms for granted, not realising the importance of the unbroken chain back to the English common law, the key agreements, and the system of governance which underpin that liberty. How fragile are those freedoms? It is not inconceivable that they could disappear in a generation if the cultural memory is lost, supplanted by disruptive ideologies or loss of pride in our Western inheritance.
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50th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 25th February 2020. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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Rowan Atkinson argues, in his inimitable style, for unfettered free speech with the right to offend. Yet he acknowledges that freedom comes with responsibility.
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45th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 8th August 2018. Held in the Macquarie Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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29th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 12th August 2014. Held in the Waratah Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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