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QLD Liberal Party.
Remember folks, Liberalism is devoid of a moral position. If you can kill babies to open up freer markets, congrats, that action conforms to market liberalism.
There is no moral component beyond market making and profit. They'd put make oxygen on a premium privatized subscription model of they could
NSW Labour is doing similar though aren't they? Which parties besides the Greens are not bending the knee?
In Australia, the Liberal party are the conservatives (tories).
Edit: can anyone else thinking of 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.
He was speaking of the soldiers of liberalism, not "liberal" as in "person left of Reagan and Thatcher"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
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.