Federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott, recently delivered the following lecture (here slightly abridged) to launch the Adelaide University Democratic Club, an associate organisation of the Thomas More Centre and the National Civic Council (NCC). He dedicated the address to one of Australia’s greatest poets and supporters of the NCC, the late James McAuley.Professor James McAuley, the founding editor of Quadrant magazine, was one of Australia’s greatest poets, most notable public intellectuals and…