Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and Caroline Overington bemoaned a supposed ‘crisis of conservatism’ which they claimed had seen its foundations shaken by the prime ministership of Malcolm Turnbull.
Their suggestion was that moderate liberalism had infiltrated the Liberal Party’s ranks, captured its policy agenda and alienated conservatives.
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