12-04-2017, 10:57 AM
Yes the ALP had moved to the right with neoliberalism under Keating and even further under Shorten.
But I wouldn't place them in a conservative arena. They adopted the "Third Way" position whilst the Coalition adopted the "New Right" position during the Fraser era and more so under the Howard era.
The Coalition today is socially conservative and Turnbull funnily enough now declares it as a center party of late.
There's little to distinguish between the two parties today but as we've seen over the last 10 years they appose each other for the sole purpose of populism. Populism is a descriptor of both major parties as evidenced by backflips when they go from opposition to Govt and vice versa.
IR laws are the only real separation between them these days.
But I wouldn't place them in a conservative arena. They adopted the "Third Way" position whilst the Coalition adopted the "New Right" position during the Fraser era and more so under the Howard era.
The Coalition today is socially conservative and Turnbull funnily enough now declares it as a center party of late.
There's little to distinguish between the two parties today but as we've seen over the last 10 years they appose each other for the sole purpose of populism. Populism is a descriptor of both major parties as evidenced by backflips when they go from opposition to Govt and vice versa.
IR laws are the only real separation between them these days.