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...
