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Who's Liberal? What's Labor? New bill to give established parties control of their names is full of holes

  • Written by Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
Who's Liberal? What's Labor? New bill to give established parties control of their names is full of holesWikicommons/Shutterstock/The Conversation

Are the Liberals liberal? Does the Labor Party stand chiefly for those who labour? Electoral politics is nothing if not about wrapping ideas - about values and power - in words.

On Friday, the Morrison government introduced a Party Registration Integrity Bill to the Commonwealth parliament. The bill would...

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