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Liberal Party names first female leader after historic Australia election loss (www.bbc.com)
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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (11 children)

What exactly do you mean that they're not liberal?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The Liberal Party of Australia (LP)[14] is the major centre-right[15][16] political party in Australia.

On the standard conservative - liberal scale, they trend conservative despite their name.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Makes me wonder how they started with Liberal in their name. Perhaps they were liberal from when they formed a hundred years ago and just never updated any of their positions or stances?

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

they are economically liberal, socially conservative - so they support business and letting it do whatever the fuck it wants

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