| The Times Will Suit Them | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
| Publication date | October 2008 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | ISBN 9781741756241 |
| OCLC Number | 271833266 |
| Dewey Decimal | 320.994 22 |
| LC Classification | JC573.2.A8 B68 2008 |
The Times Will Suit Them: Postmodern conservatism in Australia is a 2008 book by academics Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe. The book argues that for more than a decade Prime Minister John Howard took advantage of international crises and local anxieties to stay in government and significantly reshape Australian public life. The authors outline a theory that despite its conservative background the Howard Government was post-modernist, skeptical of organised politics and committed to policies based on a relative assessment of Australian cultural values rather than more universal international ideals.[1] These characteristics, casting the Government in a "radical conservative" mould, are presented as an explanation for the Government's electoral success.[2]