Flat White

No conservatives, thanks; we’re liberals

11 July 2017

6:34 PM

11 July 2017

6:34 PM

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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