The Liberals never gave members the same scope to be involved and influence policy as Labor did. Now, they are paying the price for it.
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Under Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, home ownership expanded from about half of all homes to more than seven in ten. The consequences reverberate today.
The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the party’s “women problem” began.
As school ‘funding wars’ roll into next year, many Australians may not realise the federal government hasn’t always contributed to school funding.
Peter Dutton’s position on pro-Palestinian protestors may be particularly aggressive, but it is not out of step with his party’s traditions.
Putting aside concerns about feasibility and cost, it’s difficult to square the policy with the basic principles on which the Liberal Party was founded.
Robert Menzies is outstanding as a physically feeble yet emotionally volatile Lear.
Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay lays out how the policies of successive governments have not only failed to address housing problems, but actively created them.
Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
The referendum has highlighted what many have previously overlooked or denied: that Indigenous Australians (like other Australians) aren’t of one political mind
Media Monsters deserves to stand among the giants of academic research and authorship on Australian media and political history.
Menzies created the Liberals from the rubble of its once successful but ultimately dysfunctional forebear, the UAP. It wasn’t the first time the centre-right reinvented itself. It could happen again.
There are lessons from history in how to hold the Liberal Party together – and it’s about more than just opposing everything the government does.
The partnership between the Liberal and National parties has a long and at times chequered history – but it has also had tremendous success in winning and holding government.
The former prime minister’s latest book calls on his party to be both liberal and conservative in order to survive.
Since the advent of the two-party preferred system, there have been two examples of parties governing effectively in minority, and with the support of independents.
Fears of the “communist menace” have long been used in Australian politics, but it is unclear who the market is for such a scare campaign today.
Facing protests by students and academics over its Liberal Party links and generous funding by the Morrison government, the centre’s most important test will be whether it respects academic freedom.
Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menzies insisted universities should have protection from political interference. But Bob Hawke’s education minister John Dawkins dismantled these protections.
The government’s higher education changes appear driven by three factors.
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