As Australia careers towards an Abbott government, a question that routinely occurs to me is: “is it really conservatives voting for this party?”
There really is nothing conservative about what the Abbott coalition is offering. Rather, it is a strangely inverted conservatism; a big-government, socially regressive proflicracy.
On this May Day that has passed, the University of Western Sydney’s Whitlam Institute organised a political forum called It’s My Party, as a part of the Behind the Lines exhibition that is being hosted at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres. Labor’s John Faulkner, the Liberals’ Joe Hockey and the Greens’ Bob Brown were invited to outlay the underlying philosophies of their respective parties. The audience were then invited to ask questions about those philosophies afterwards.
‘Factional rifts, personal animosities and turf wars’
