Why have Australia’s principal parties forgotten their bases? The party whose policies address this omission could win the election, as Menzies did in 1949.
Both sides increasingly seek to satisfy the inner-city elites with policies that lack common sense. The result is, as Thomas Sowell famously observed: ‘Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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