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Flat White

There’s nothing Liberal about the Liberal Party

6 September 2021

3:00 PM

6 September 2021

3:00 PM

John Ruddick is the Liberal Democrat Party candidate for the Senate. He recently wrote in these pages about the just-passed Commonwealth legislation permitting the Liberal Party of Australia to claim intellectual property rights over the word “Liberal”. So much for a Liberal party. 

This legislation is a fundamental assault on political competition.

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