Commentary
In this esteemed publication, I wrote a few weeks ago that when the Australian Liberal Party moves closer to the Australia Labor Party (ALP), it dismays its own best supporters without gaining any new ones.
And so it has come to pass.
Completely underwhelmed by a lack of centre-right product differentiation—in other words—a lack of conviction, many traditional Liberal voters, abandoned the party at the elections held on Saturday and sent it into opposition.
Dismayed by outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s constant attempts to appease the left on issues ranging from global warming to religious freedom to the empowering of power-lusting state premiers in their disgracefully draconian response to COVID, many voters came to the decision that the party of Burke’s conservatism and Mill’s liberalism no longer believed in those things….