The Twilight of the Elites / David Flint; Foreword by Tony Abbott

They just don't get it. Australia's media and legal elites wanted us to vote for a republic in 1999. We didn't. They wanted us to change the flag. We wouldn't. They wanted the Prime Minister to say sorry. He wouldn't. They want us to hand over power to international elites - we won't. They wanted us to kick out John Howard in 2001. We didn't. They wanted us to support unlimited illegal immigration. We didn't. But still they live in hope that they can get round Australia's system of democratic checks and balances, to impose their own agendas secularism, hard multiculturalism, judicial activism,an end to individual responsibility, Big Government.

David Flint's lucid, compulsively readable analysis of Australia's chattering classes ranges across cultures and centuries. From Marx to Mabo, from Whitlam to Wik, from Foucault to Foreign Correspondent, from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Keneally, Professor Flint sheds new light on old political questions. Read The Twilight of the Elites, and you'll never be able to look at to read or hear our (elite) commentariat in the same way again.