In Australia, the Liberal party are the conservatives (tories).
Edit: can anyone else thinking replying to me take a breath. I was clearly explaining to a foreigner that the world liberal in the name Australian Liberal Party didn’t mean liberal politically. I don’t need to hear your hot takes on the Liberals.
When the right wing faction are in power of the Liberal Party maybe, but for the most part no, not really. Both parties are forms of neoliberalism.
It’s like claiming Trump is a conservative… Not really. They might throw a bone to some conservative groups periodically, but groups like conservative Christians haven’t been a serious voting block since Howard.
In Australia, the Liberal party are the conservatives (tories).
Edit: can anyone else thinking replying to me take a breath. I was clearly explaining to a foreigner that the world liberal in the name Australian Liberal Party didn’t mean liberal politically. I don’t need to hear your hot takes on the Liberals.
In Australia in 2026, the Labor party are conservative, the Liberal party are regressive.
When the right wing faction are in power of the Liberal Party maybe, but for the most part no, not really. Both parties are forms of neoliberalism.
It’s like claiming Trump is a conservative… Not really. They might throw a bone to some conservative groups periodically, but groups like conservative Christians haven’t been a serious voting block since Howard.
He was speaking of the soldiers of liberalism, not “liberal” as in “person left of Reagan and Thatcher”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism