Now is the Turn of the Right: 'Ditch the base'

Abstract

<p>Elite neoliberal policy consensus requires traditional parties of the left and right to progressively sever their connection with their traditional party bases. The task fell first on parties of the left, but now it falls too on parties of the right. Tony Abbott's Liberal National Party government provides a case study in how this challenge impacts on parties of the right, and how this impact is likely to play out.</p>