| The Times Will Suit Them | |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Release Date: | October 2008 |
| Media Type: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Isbn: | 9781741756241 |
| Dewey: | 320.994 22 |
| Congress: | JC573.2.A8 B68 2008 |
The Times Will Suit Them: Postmodern Conservatism in Australia is a 2008 book by the 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 postmodernist, 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]