National Coalition Government: Immigration

Conventional Wisdom Dept: When the Australian Labor Party defeated the 12-year-old centre-right Liberal-National coalition government in late 2007, the conventional wisdom suggested a political realignment, according to Globe And Mail. But that was then. On a wide variety of election issues – from climate change to constitutional change, from economic management to border protection – the political gravity in Australia is well to the right of where many Labor partisans and small-l liberal intellectuals might think it is and that’s the message of what is being billed as the closest federal election down under in half a century. But it was not supposed to be this way. Not only did it spell the end of John Howard – a 33-year parliamentary veteran, a friend and admirer of Stephen Harper’s, and a man president George W. Bush lauded as a “man of steel.” We were told it signalled the nadir of conservatism and the dawn of a new era of progressivism. As reported in the news.
@t political realignment, liberal intellectuals