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Article: What's Wrong with the Liberal Party?(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Melbourne Journal of Politics
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
- Author:
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE LIBERAL PARTY? GREG BARNES
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003
AUD $29.95 (PPK), PP. 168 ISBN: 0521 5488X
It's possible that Greg Barnes might have been tempted to answer his own question with two words: John Howard. And it would be hard not to feel some sympathy for him if he had done so. Barnes, who is now a member of the Australian Democrats, begins his critique of the Liberal Party with a description of events that led to his departure from the party of which he had been a member for twenty years:
On 3 February 2002, the Tasmanian Liberal Party met in Campbelltown to do something it had never done ...