Professor David Flint AM argues that the Liberal Party should neither be ideologically driven nor try to copy Labor. Instead, it should seek to represent Australia’s “forgotten people” with whose support Menzies built the original Liberal Party.The Liberal Party has never been an ideological party. The contrast with Labor could not be clearer. And yet it was only by presenting himself as leading a party little different from the Liberals that Kevin Rudd was able to win the November 2007 election…
