With its nuclear energy policy, Peter Dutton seems to have forgotten the Liberal Party’s core beliefs
- Written by: Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
When Robert Menzies was out of office in 1943, in between prime ministerships, he was thinking about the future of non-Labor politics in wartime Australia. He read Edmund Burke’s book Thought on the Present Discontents. In it, Burke included the now-famous definition of a political party as:
a body of men united in promoting by their joint...
