Australian Politics

Nailing the coffin shut.

Abbott and co played their part in the purge of moderate so-called small l liberals and now they are a minor party that unsurprisingly fails to represent the broad interests of right of centre voters.

You can hate the ALP right for keeping public schooling down to look after religious schools, backing socially conservative policies, neo-liberal economics increasing the wealth divide, an erosion of workers rights and govt services, anti environmental policies and being the mates of big business and foreign lobbies. But they keep the ALP relevant to a wider range of voters than a socialist workers party ever could and keep them in government. The Libs had breadth and a huge brand and they chose to give it up because they couldn't see the big picture.

Now someone on the right might as well go for ON or a teal or perhaps even the ALP.