Australian Notes

Conservative Notes

29 October 2016

9:00 AM

29 October 2016

9:00 AM

You’d be hard pressed to be overly optimistic about the state of conservative politics in the developed English-speaking world right now. Leave Australia to one side for a moment and look around the rest of the Anglosphere. In my native Canada the Tories lost office in late 2015. Stephen Harper had been Prime Minister from 2006 till November 2015 when the Conservatives were routed.

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