The Truth About The Liberal Party
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The neocons in Australia keep spruiking stuff about their culture wars but in reality the nation has rejected them. The truth about the Liberal Party is that the electorate has given a succession of their leaders the old heave ho. Former PM John Howard in Bennelong was ousted in 2007.
“Howard had held the Bennelong seat for 33 years and has been the prime minister for 11 years. He becomes the first Australian prime minister in 78 years to be dropped by his constituency, and only the second in history.”
Tony Abbott, another briefly former PM and Liberal leader was rejected by voters in Warringah in 2019.
“One of the Liberals’ leading conservatives and Australia’s 28th prime minister, Tony Abbott, has lost his blue-ribbon Sydney seat of Warringah after moderate Liberal voters abandoned him in protest at the role he played in opposing climate change action.”
Now, Peter Dutton the latest leader of the Liberal Party has likewise been sent packing by the voters in Dickson in 2025.
“For the past three years, when peers of Australia’s former Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton were grilled over his divisive persona, they’d often profess his celebrity status in the north.
“Peter is one of us… He’s very popular in Queensland,” said the leader of the Nationals, the Liberal’s coalition partner, earlier this year. But on election night, it was Dutton’s home state that delivered Labor its election win, with the red landslide ousting the veteran MP from his own seat of Dickson.”
Hard Truths About The Liberal Party Of Australia
What is that saying about cutting off the head of the snake? The Australian people have been busy rejecting the version of the Liberal Party embodied by these hard Right idealogues. They have done this in response to what they and their party have done to the nation whilst in government. John Howard has been responsible for the taxation changes which have made residential property in Australia so inflated and unaffordable for many, especially younger Aussies. Slashing the capital gains tax with a 50% discount.
“Also, how negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount delivered massive tax breaks to the rich at the expense of affordable housing for the rest of Australia.”
Negative Gearing: A Little History
“Negative gearing has a long history in Australia. It was introduced in 1936 to encourage housing investment and increase supply, but it has been the subject of political debate ever since.
Past attempts to reform the policy have produced mixed results.
In 1985, the Hawke government limited negative gearing by stopping investors from using rental losses to offset income.
However, this decision was reversed just two years later after housing shortages and rising rents.
More recently, Labor attempted to curtail the policy during the 2016 and 2019 federal elections, proposing that the tax benefits should only apply to new housing.”
Politicians Giving Away The Farm Downunder
Australia has a long tradition of being pro-investment, as historically we were a newly colonised nation with lots of land but little else. Governments have been at pains to emphasise pro-investment strategies over the centuries. We still see this in the notoriously bad deals cut with mining multinationals, which favour them with huge tax subsidies to encourage their investment in Australia. National GDP figures include the dollar amounts of gas and minerals sold by these corporations whether the country actually gets a share via royalties and taxes or not. Someone needs to tell these politicians and bureaucrats that the game has changed and public expectation is that Australians actually get something for our resources and not just the very modest volume of jobs generated by their extraction.
The Decimation Of The Far Right Liberals
The truth about the Liberal Party is that their shift to the far right has proven to be more and more unpopular. The Temu Trump phenomenon has been brewing for some time. Peter Dutton as the strongman leader of Oz via his unrelenting divisive attacks on anyone who was not essentially a white bloke living in the outer suburbs has seen the Liberal Party fall to its lowest level of elected representatives ever. Robert Menzies would be spinning in his grave. Women and young people in Australia do not identify with Liberal party policies or their general flavour.
The average Liberal Party voter is a bloke in his 70’s and the average Australian voter is a 37 YO woman.
This equation spells big problems for them unless they change tack. The move of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the Nationals to the Libs is not a sign that this remedial shift is going to occur any time soon. This hardline Trumpian politician represents the extremist side of the conservative front downunder. As long as Donald Trump is wreaking havoc in the US and globally these radical right wing populist politicians will be on the nose in Australia.
“The LNP Coalition in Australia is a right wing political party, no longer in the mould of its founder Robert Menzies. Its current leader Peter Dutton continues to take the LNP further right via divisive commentary and policies. Why they call Dutton ‘Temu Trump’? Peter, like many on the right, see Donald Trump as an inspirational model for extremist anti-government behaviour. Blame the government for everything is a popular sentiment in America.”
New Leader Of Libs A Woman
Sussan Ley has been elected the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. The question is whether she will be window dressing or an indicator that the Libs are moving back to the centre?
“Sussan Ley been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party. “
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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