It is all a matter of communication.
The liberal party is still based on sound objectives and procedures I am sure.
It is just that we don't know about them.
Instead we are getting a lot of badly explained nonsense.
That is how I see it.
Time for them to shape up and start showing us the way.
Time for them to start LEADING?

Good to see Finnland go Conservative over the weekend.
ttbn,
Well, the Finns are a fair bit ahead of drugged-to the eyeballs Okkers !
Besides, who needs a civil war when you have wall to wall Labor ? Just you wait till they start bouncing off those walls !

It could of course be said that some/many of current financial problems are the inevitable result of policies put in place by John Howard. Policies which were and are in effect "welfare" policies for the then and now relatively well off middle class and even the very well off or rich.
But even so we now live in a completely different milieu to the Menzies era. An era in which everyone and everything is instantaneously interconnected, and even more importantly an era in which countless billions (even trillions) of dollars are traded each day on the global capital markets - casino "capitalism". Countless billions which have no relation to any kind of the necessary tangible items upon which everyone's prosperity depends.

No tears for the losing crime syndicate. The other crime of course is forcing people to vote against their moral principles, by pain of fine.

The author wants a return to the days of 'Pig Iron' Bob Menzies, and he wants to know why the Liberal Party is in deep sh!t, ask yourself with that suggestion. Menzies was a sycophantic fascists lover, don't forget 'Pig Iron' Bob was party leader in 1943 when the UAP crashed and burned!

Well with a leader that looks like he just walked out of a 'B' horror movie, (The Dud is the preferred choice for PM by 24% of voters), and the party has absolutely no policies, except to say "NO" to everything. The conservatives formed a party a few years back and it received less that half a percent of the popular vote, it was a disaster. The Liberal Party is lucky to get 1 in 7 votes from those aged under 40, no party of significance can survive for long with that low a number of young voters. If an election was held tomorrow the Noalition would be annihilated with the loss of another 10 seats, including the seat of the Dud himself.

ttbn and Indy, I agree you two should be in conservative Finland, talking nonsense to the reindeer's.

Thanks for the article Scott Prasser.

It's difficult to create a new brand and organisation- I think that any path is going to be difficult- but I agree that the Liberal party has lost touch with the grass roots- but maybe the grass roots have lost touch with reality too- perhaps because there is too much red tape in business.

People should be running little cottage industries out of their houses- but apparently the government stops them doing it. You don't need formality- just productivity- keep things simple- live off the land- pull yourself up by your bootstraps. This is the protestant ethic- the western way.

People should be able to run hot dog stands on the street- but can't- they should be encouraged to exploit their business creativity to support themselves rather than being dependent on the government for their life and meaning.

The government has a role in creating platforms for opportunistic self sufficiency. Perhaps they think they do but they don't.