It’s amazing what a good old fashion electoral drubbing can do to the principles of our elected representatives
During the GFC virtually all Australian politicians supported Keynesian fiscal policy and – it seems – after the Victorian state election, virtually all Australian politicians have become progressive. Progressive is the new black.
Josh Frydenberg, the man who replaced Julie Bishop as deputy leader of the Liberals after Malcolm Turnbull’s demise, declared on Monday that “when Sir Robert Menzies established the Liberal Party he made it very clear we were a progressive party, not a reactionary party”. Another former conservative, Scott Ryan, said his party needed to listen to voters not conservative commentators, Senator Jane Hume said the Liberals needed to pre-select more women and Tim Wilson, the former IPA staffer, now thinks the party needs to take climate action seriously. Bishop has even declared that the Liberals should adopt a bipartisan approach to climate policy.
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