Australia's longest serving foreign minister says the Liberal Party needs to “inject a sense of values and idealism” into their arguments and show how they differ from the progressive left.
Mr Downer described the Liberal Party’s core values as “individual freedom, individual decision making, consumers deciding the broad direction of economic society, people being responsible for their own actions rather than the state being responsible for everything.”
“The Liberal Party has essentially lost the debate. For the time being the debate has been won by the progressive left.” “And this led to a massive increase in public expenditure… this has of course indebted future generations.
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