The Utilitarian Discipline in Australia

Some people think that Australia has like a uniquely utilitarian or benthmite political ideology, sort of embedded in our political DNA from the days of chartism and the harvest of judgment. It really is powerful in Australia and maybe more powerful in Australia than in other places. One of the really attractive features of that is that people don't get so hung up on concepts of procedural fairness such as individual liberties. But then on the other hand, there are, you're on a slippery slope I think.