ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Australia, but some of the difficulties with the connection of liberalism and social justice faced by Australia are faced also by some of the newly independent countries of the east and south. It explains why the doctrine threatens the opposite, but it also notices the imperialist cultural tradition from which it emerged. The chapter also discusses the liberalism to refer to two main ideas. First, the deprivation of life, liberty and property are permissible only after affected parties have had a substantively equal opportunity to be heard by a tribunal with no vested interest in the outcome. Second, the liberalism to have inherited the requirement of its Whig antecedents that political authority should be subject to effective checks and balances. Democracy belongs somewhere between them if they have any possibility of informing a stable political practice. In an era of mass communication and mass higher education, the media and the universities are obviously of crucial significance.
