What this article really does is to spell out the demise of stale ideology. What's interesting for me is that the only logical place for the Liberals to go now is to take the mantle that was once held by their opponents: ie, as the truly innovative instigators of change. But this will first need the party to shake off the hardliners and embrace a new set of ideas for the modern world.

It seems like Turnbull has taken the bit between his teeth with his support for turning waste into biochar and putting it into the soil, for example. I hope this trend continues.

The Right have no philosophy other than self-enrichment.
The economics of the Right is defined by what it attacks. I have never seen a constructive Right wing view apart from "rule of the jungle, except when it can benefit me".
The policies of the last decade have effectively left us with more financial industries, but less factories, farms and other sources of real wealth.
Seen in the context of Jonny Howard, the Right was simply a bunch of baby boomers who setup the economy to enrich themselves at the expense of the following generations. Engineering shortages to force prices up in housing isn't good economics, its Mafia style wealth distribution.
They were so spectacularly bad at running the country that they took Australia out of the top 10 countries for livability and sent it on the same path as the US. 10 years wasted in energy research, housing, transport, schools, hospitals and industry.
I hope history judges Howard as not just a war criminal, but an economic natural disaster.

Ozandy

The deregulation of the import/export industry was done by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating of the ALP, they slashed tariff and subsidies, so that factories are no longer profitable

The farms are not profitable because Australia had been in drought condition for 20 years, however our export level had actually increased significantly over the last year. The problem is that the margins are not made at the farm level

As for the financial crisis, that is caused by bad policy of both the left and the right. Left's request of providing housing to the poor, who have not got the money to borrow, as well as the deregulation of the loan market, first enacted by the Democrates, and then enforced by the republicans.

Please get your facts right before posting

OZAndy “The Right have no philosophy other than self-enrichment.”

Actually it was Margaret Thatcher who said “Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.”

It’s a bit like Maslows hierarchy of needs, the right acknowledges all the levels,

whereas the left are still grappling to comprehend with the lowest one.

And of course “self-enrichment” is a far more productive goal than a co-dependency on the state, as espoused by the left.

Just because some here-today-gone-tomorrow ego blogger thinks the right has not future shows a lack of understanding of history.

The Right will always prevail because it is right, whereas the Left, in all its guises, has been repeatedly proven to be wrong.

But we will always have a left, it is populated by
A the young, full of dreams and impossible aspirations, who lack the experience of real life
and
B the failures, the envious and the malcontents who know they cannot escape their own inadequacies, so try to drag everyone else down to their level. A bunch of sad buggers

Dovif2 agree your comments to deregulations and the origins of the current financial crisis can be traced back to Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act