Dec 222009
Abbott’s new cabinet confirms what has been obvious for some time: that the Coalition parties have forfeited their right to the term ‘liberal’. Robert Manne nailed Howard – a mendacious populist. People like Ruddock and Andrews are authoritarian reactionaries. (There are no words to describe Bronwen Bishop.) In The Age the other day a Liberal lamented the death of the party Menzies founded.
Andrew Norton (“Carlton’s only classical liberal”) gives some interesting survey figures to show that on the Australian “Right”, there is a clear statist majority.
Some of us can’t support either major party, and are tired of flinging tokens to Bob Brown. How’s about a re-formed liberal party – Turnbull at its head, Keating the grey eminence?