Last week, while in London accepting an award for Australia’s ‘non-discriminatory’ immigration policies, Malcolm Turnbull made his now infamous Sensible Centre speech, supposedly saying that the Liberal party was not, and never had been, a ‘conservative party’. Said Turnbull, as quoted in every major Australian newspaper: ‘In 1944 Menzies went to great pains not to call his new centre-right party a conservative party – rather, he described our party as the Liberal Party, which he firmly anchored in the centre of Australian politics’.
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