Last night I went to sleep on the right. I must have tossed and turned a lot because when I woke up I was in the sensible centre:
Prominent right-wing Australian have seized on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s claim the Liberal Party was never meant to be conservative…
The Prime Minister made the remarks in a speech in the UK overnight, arguing the party’s founder Sir Robert Menzies deliberately positioned the Liberal Party in the centre when he founded it in 1944.
“Menzies said: ‘We took the name Liberal because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no...
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