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The Liberal Party's Identity
If you'd like to see the Liberal Party retain, remain attractive to those who tend to be a bit right wing in their thinking. You're going to want to keep the stake in the ground right there. But if you're ideologically really uncomfortable with that and you can only ever imagine yourself occupying the right, then you're going to seek to do battle with extremists on the right. The real risk in Australia, I think, is that in these terms, and I don't want to overstate it, but I think it is nevertheless a risk. Is it a principle, a major political party decides that it wants to occupy an extreme position over there on the right? And that's what